running and building tests

Some of the tests of libtorrent are not self contained. For instance, in order to test the http_connection class in libtorrent, the test requires lighty. This document outlines the requirements of the tests as well as describes how to set up your environment to be able to run them.

lighty

Download lighty. I've tested with lighttpd-1.4.19. If libtorrent is built with SSL support (which it is by default), lighty needs SSL support as well.

To build lighty with SSL support do:

./configure --with-openssl

Followed by:

sudo make install

Make sure you have SSL support in lighty by running:

lighttpd -V

Which gives you a list of all enabled features.

delegate

Delegate can act as many different proxies, which makes it a convenient tool to use to test libtorrent's support for SOCKS4, SOCKS5, HTTPS and HTTP proxies.

You can download prebuilt binaries for the most common platforms on deletate's download page. Make sure to name the executable delegated and put it in a place where a shell can pick it up, in its PATH. For instance /bin.

OpenSSL

In order to create an SSL certificate for lighty, openssl is used. More specifically, the following command is issued by the test to create the certificate file:

echo -e "AU\ntest province\ntest city\ntest company\ntest department\n\
        tester\ntest@test.com" | openssl req -new -x509 -keyout server.pem \
        -out server.pem -days 365 -nodes

This will write server.pem which is referenced in the lighty confiuration file.

OpenSSL comes installed with most Linux and BSD distros, including Mac OS X. You can download it from the openssl homepage.