Prerequisites

To build libtorrent, you need the following libraries:

• http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/index.html
• http://www.boost.org
• http://asio.sourceforge.net/

Step 1: Acquire the source code from cvs

Create a directory for the project:

mkdir /home/you/work
cd /home/you/work

Check out boost, libtorrent, asio source code from cvs by executing the following commands:

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@boost.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@boost.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost checkout boost
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@boost.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/boost logout

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@libtorrent.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libtorrent login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@libtorrent.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libtorrent co -P libtorrent
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@libtorrent.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/libtorrent logout

cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@asio.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/asio login
cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@asio.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/asio co -P asio
cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@asio.cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/asio login

Step 2: Building boost

To build boost, first build boost-build and then use that to build the library themselves:

cd /home/you/boost
set BOOST_BUILD_PATH=/home/you/boost/tools/build/v2
set BOOST_ROOT=/home/you/boost
cd /home/you/boost/tools/build/boost-build/jam_src
./build.sh
cp /bin.linuxx86/bjam /usr/bin
cd /home/you/boost
bjam -sTOOLS=gcc install

If you're successful you will see the followinf files in /usr/local/lib:

libboost_date_time-gcc-d-1_31.so
libboost_date_time-gcc-mt-d-1_31.so
libboost_date_time-gcc-1_31.so
libboost_date_time-gcc-mt-1_31.so
libboost_date_time-gcc-d-1_31.a
libboost_date_time-gcc-mt-d-1_31.a
libboost_date_time-gcc-1_31.a
libboost_date_time-gcc-mt-1_31.a

Step 3: Copy asio into the libtorrent directory

Execute the following command:

cp -R /home/you/asio/include/asio* /home/you/libtorrent/include/libtorrent

Step 4: Building libtorrent

To use the auto tools to build libtorrent, execute the following commands:

cd /home/you/libtorrent
export CXXFLAGS=-I/usr/local/include/boost-1_35
export LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib

./configure --with-boost-date-time=boost_date_time-gcc \
--with-boost-filesystem=boost_filesystem-gcc \
--with-boost-thread=boost_thread-gcc-mt

make
sudo make install

If successful, you will see the following file:

/usr/local/lib/libtorrent.a
/usr/local/lib/libtorrent.so.0
/usr/local/lib/libtorrent.la
/usr/local/lib/libtorrent.so.0.1.0
/usr/local/lib/libtorrent.so