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<p class="topic-title first">Table of contents</p>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#downloading-and-building" id="id8">downloading and building</a><ul>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#building-from-svn" id="id9">building from svn</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#building-with-bbv2" id="id10">building with BBv2</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#building-with-autotools" id="id11">building with autotools</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#building-with-other-build-systems" id="id12">building with other build systems</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#build-configurations" id="id13">build configurations</a></li>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#building-openssl-for-windows" id="id14">building openssl for windows</a></li>
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<div class="section" id="downloading-and-building">
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<h1>downloading and building</h1>
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<p>To acquire the latest version of libtorrent, you'll have to grab it from SVN.
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You'll find instructions on how to do this <a class="reference external" href="http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=79942">here</a> (see subversion access).</p>
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<p>The build systems supported "out of the box" in libtorrent are boost-build v2
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(BBv2) and autotools (for unix-like systems). If you still can't build after
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following these instructions, you can usually get help in the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">#libtorrent</span></tt>
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IRC channel on <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">irc.freenode.net</span></tt>.</p>
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<div class="warning">
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<p class="first admonition-title">Warning</p>
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<p>A common mistake when building and linking against libtorrent is
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to build with one set of configuration options (#defines) and
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link against it using a different set of configuration options. Since
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libtorrent has some code in header files, that code will not be
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compatible with the built library if they see different configurations.</p>
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<p>Always make sure that the same TORRENT_* macros are defined when you
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link against libtorrent as when you build it.</p>
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<p class="last">Boost-build supports propagating configuration options to dependencies.
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When building using the makefiles, this is handled by setting the
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configuration options in the pkg-config file. Always use pkg-config
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when linking against libtorrent.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="section" id="building-from-svn">
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<h2>building from svn</h2>
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<p>To build libtorrent from svn you need to check out the libtorrent sources from
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sourceforge. If you downloaded a release tarball, you can skip this section.</p>
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<p>To check out libtorrent follow these <a class="reference external" href="http://sourceforge.net/svn/?group_id=79942">instructions</a>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="section" id="building-with-bbv2">
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<h2>building with BBv2</h2>
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<p>The primary reason to use boost-build is that it will automatically build the
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dependent boost libraries with the correct compiler settings, in order to
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ensure that the build targets are link compatible (see <a class="reference external" href="http://boost.org/more/separate_compilation.html">boost guidelines</a>
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for some details on this issue).</p>
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<p>Since BBv2 will build the boost libraries for you, you need the full boost
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source package. Having boost installed via some package system is usually not
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enough (and even if it is enough, the necessary environment variables are
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usually not set by the package installer).</p>
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<p>If you want to build against an installed copy of boost, you can skip directly
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to step 3 (assuming you also have boost build installed).</p>
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<div class="section" id="step-1-download-boost">
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<h3>Step 1: Download boost</h3>
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<p>You'll find boost <a class="reference external" href="http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=7586&package_id=8041&release_id=619445">here</a>.</p>
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<p>Extract the archive to some directory where you want it. For the sake of this
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guide, let's assume you extract the package to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">c:\boost_1_34_0</span></tt> (I'm using
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a windows path in this example since if you're on linux/unix you're more likely
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to use the autotools). You'll need at least version 1.34 of the boost library
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in order to build libtorrent.</p>
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<div class="section" id="step-2-setup-bbv2">
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<h3>Step 2: Setup BBv2</h3>
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<p>First you need to build <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bjam</span></tt>. You do this by opening a terminal (In
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windows, run <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">cmd</span></tt>). Change directory to
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">c:\boost_1_34_0\tools\jam\src</span></tt>. Then run the script called
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">build.bat</span></tt> or <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">build.sh</span></tt> on a unix system. This will build <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bjam</span></tt> and
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place it in a directory starting with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bin.</span></tt> and then have the name of your
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platform. Copy the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bjam.exe</span></tt> (or <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bjam</span></tt> on a unix system) to a place
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that's in you shell's <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">PATH</span></tt>. On linux systems a place commonly used may be
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/usr/local/bin</span></tt> or on windows <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">c:\windows</span></tt> (you can also add directories
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to the search paths by modifying the environment variable called <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">PATH</span></tt>).</p>
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<p>Now you have <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bjam</span></tt> installed. <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bjam</span></tt> can be considered an interpreter
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that the boost-build system is implemented on. So boost-build uses <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bjam</span></tt>.
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So, to complete the installation you need to make two more things. You need to
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set the environment variable <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">BOOST_BUILD_PATH</span></tt>. This is the path that tells
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bjam</span></tt> where it can find boost-build, your configuration file and all the
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toolsets (descriptions used by boost-build to know how to use different
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compilers on different platforms). Assuming the boost install path above, set
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it to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">c:\boost_1_34_0\tools\build\v2</span></tt>.</p>
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<p>To set an environment variable in windows, type for example:</p>
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<pre class="literal-block">
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set BOOST_BUILD_PATH=c:\boost_1_34_0\tools\build\v2
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</pre>
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<p>In a terminal window.</p>
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<p>The last thing to do to complete the setup of BBv2 is to modify your
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">user-config.jam</span></tt> file. It is located in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">c:\boost_1_34_0\tools\build\v2</span></tt>.
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Depending on your platform and which compiler you're using, you should add a
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line for each compiler and compiler version you have installed on your system
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that you want to be able to use with BBv2. For example, if you're using
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Microsoft Visual Studio 7.1 (2003), just add a line:</p>
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<pre class="literal-block">
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using msvc : 7.1 ;
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</pre>
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<p>If you use GCC, add the line:</p>
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<pre class="literal-block">
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using gcc ;
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</pre>
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<p>If you have more than one version of GCC installed, you can add the
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commandline used to invoke g++ after the version number, like this:</p>
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<pre class="literal-block">
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using gcc : 3.3 : g++-3.3 ;
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using gcc : 4.0 : g++-4.0 ;
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</pre>
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<p>Another toolset worth mentioning is the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">darwin</span></tt> toolset (For MacOS X).
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From Tiger (10.4) MacOS X comes with both GCC 3.3 and GCC 4.0. Then you can
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use the following toolsets:</p>
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using darwin : 3.3 : g++-3.3 ;
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using darwin : 4.0 : g++-4.0 ;
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</pre>
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<p>Note that the spaces around the semi-colons and colons are important!</p>
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<p>Also see the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.boost.org/doc/html/bbv2/installation.html">official installation instructions</a>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="section" id="step-3-building-libtorrent">
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<h3>Step 3: Building libtorrent</h3>
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<p>When building libtorrent, the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Jamfile</span></tt> expects the environment variable
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">BOOST_ROOT</span></tt> to be set to the boost installation directory. It uses this to
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find the boost libraries it depends on, so they can be built and their headers
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files found. So, set this to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">c:\boost_1_34_0</span></tt>. You only need this if you're
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building against a source distribution of boost.</p>
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<p>Then the only thing left is simply to invoke <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bjam</span></tt>. If you want to specify
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a specific toolset to use (compiler) you can just add that to the commandline.
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For example:</p>
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<pre class="literal-block">
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bjam msvc-7.1 boost=source
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bjam gcc-3.3 boost=source
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bjam darwin-4.0 boost=source
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</pre>
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<p>If you're building against a system installed boost, specify <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">boost=system</span></tt>.</p>
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<p>To build different versions you can also just add the name of the build
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variant. Some default build variants in BBv2 are <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">release</span></tt>, <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug</span></tt>,
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">profile</span></tt>.</p>
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<p>You can build libtorrent as a dll too, by typing <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">link=shared</span></tt>, or
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">link=static</span></tt> to build a static library.</p>
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<p>If you want to explicitly say how to link against the runtime library, you
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can set the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">runtime-link</span></tt> feature on the commandline, either to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">shared</span></tt>
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or <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">static</span></tt>. Most operating systems will only allow linking shared against
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the runtime, but on windows you can do both. Example:</p>
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<pre class="literal-block">
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bjam msvc-7.1 link=static runtime-link=static boost=source
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</pre>
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<div class="warning">
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<p class="first admonition-title">Warning</p>
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<p class="last">If you link statically to the runtime library, you cannot build libtorrent
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as a shared library (DLL), since you will get separate heaps in the library
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and in the client application. It will result in crashes and possibly link
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errors.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="note">
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<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
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<p class="last">With boost-build V2 (Milestone 11), the darwin toolset uses the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">-s</span></tt> linker
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option to strip debug symbols. This option is buggy in Apple's GCC, and
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will make the executable crash on startup. On Mac OS X, instead build
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your release executables with the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug-symbols=on</span></tt> option, and
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later strip your executable with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">strip</span></tt>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="note">
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<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
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<p class="last">Some linux systems requires linking against <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">librt</span></tt> in order to access
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the POSIX clock functions. If you get an error complaining about a missing
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symbol <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">clock_gettime</span></tt>, you have to give <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">need-librt=yes</span></tt> on the
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bjam command line. This will make libtorrent link against <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">librt</span></tt>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="note">
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<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
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<p class="last">When building on Solaris, you might have to specify <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">stdlib=sun-stlport</span></tt>
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on the bjam command line.</p>
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</div>
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<p>The build targets are put in a directory called bin, and under it they are
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sorted in directories depending on the toolset and build variant used.</p>
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<p>To build the examples, just change directory to the examples directory and
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invoke <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bjam</span></tt> from there. To build and run the tests, go to the test
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directory and run <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">bjam</span></tt>.</p>
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<p>Note that if you're building on windows using the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">msvc</span></tt> toolset, you cannot run it
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from a cygwin terminal, you'll have to run it from a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">cmd</span></tt> terminal. The same goes for
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cygwin, if you're building with gcc in cygwin you'll have to run it from a cygwin terminal.
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Also, make sure the paths are correct in the different environments. In cygwin, the paths
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(<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">BOOST_BUILD_PATH</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">BOOST_ROOT</span></tt>) should be in the typical unix-format (e.g.
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/cygdrive/c/boost_1_34_0</span></tt>). In the windows environment, they should have the typical
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windows format (<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">c:/boost_1_34_0</span></tt>).</p>
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<div class="note">
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<p class="first admonition-title">Note</p>
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<p class="last">In Jamfiles, spaces are separators. It's typically easiest to avoid spaces
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in path names. If you want spaces in your paths, make sure to quote them
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with double quotes (").</p>
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</div>
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<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Jamfile</span></tt> will define <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NDEBUG</span></tt> when it's building a release build.
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For more build configuration flags see <a class="reference internal" href="#build-configurations">Build configurations</a>.</p>
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<p>Build features:</p>
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<table border="1" class="docutils">
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<colgroup>
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<col width="67%" />
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<thead valign="bottom">
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<tr><th class="head">boost build feature</th>
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<th class="head">values</th>
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</thead>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">boost</span></tt></td>
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<td><ul class="first last simple">
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">system</span></tt> - default. Tells the Jamfile that
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boost is installed and should be linked against
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the system libraries.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">source</span></tt> - Specifies that boost is to be built
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from source. The environment variable
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">BOOST_ROOT</span></tt> must be defined to point to the
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boost directory.</li>
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</ul>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">boost-link</span></tt></td>
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<td><ul class="first last simple">
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">static</span></tt> - links statically against the boost
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libraries.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">shared</span></tt> - links dynamically against the boost
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libraries.</li>
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</ul>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging</span></tt></td>
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<td><ul class="first last simple">
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">none</span></tt> - no logging.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">default</span></tt> - basic session logging.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">verbose</span></tt> - verbose peer wire logging.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">errors</span></tt> - like verbose, but limited to errors.</li>
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</ul>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">dht-support</span></tt></td>
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<td><ul class="first last simple">
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">on</span></tt> - build with support for tracker less
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torrents and DHT support.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">logging</span></tt> - build with DHT support and verbose
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logging of the DHT protocol traffic.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">off</span></tt> - build without DHT support.</li>
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</ul>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">need-librt</span></tt></td>
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<td><ul class="first last simple">
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">no</span></tt> - this platform does not need to link
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against librt to have POSIX time functions.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">yes</span></tt> - specify this if your linux system
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requires you to link against librt.a. This is
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typically the case on x86 64 bit systems.</li>
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</ul>
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</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">asserts</span></tt></td>
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<td><ul class="first last simple">
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">auto</span></tt> - asserts are on if in debug mode</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">on</span></tt> - asserts are on, even in release mode</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">off</span></tt> - asserts are disabled</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">production</span></tt> - assertion failures are logged
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to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">asserts.log</span></tt> in the current working
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directory, but won't abort the process.</li>
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</ul>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">off</span></tt> - geo ip lookups disabled</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">static</span></tt> - <a class="reference external" href="http://www.maxmind.com/app/api">MaxMind</a> geo ip lookup code linked
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in statically. Note that this code is under
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LGPL license.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">shared</span></tt> - The <a class="reference external" href="http://www.maxmind.com/app/api">MaxMind</a> geo ip lookup library
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is expected to be installed on the system and
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it will be used.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">on</span></tt> - creates "upnp.log" with the messages
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sent to and received from UPnP devices.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">openssl</span></tt> - links against openssl and
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libcrypto to enable https and encrypted
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bittorrent connections.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">gcrypt</span></tt> - links against libgcrypt to enable
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encrypted bittorrent connections.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">tommath</span></tt> - uses a shipped version of
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libtommath and a custom rc4 implementation
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(based on libtomcrypt). This is the default
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option.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">off</span></tt> - turns off support for encrypted
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connections. The shipped public domain SHA-1
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implementation is used.</li>
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buffers.</li>
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instead. Might be useful to debug buffer issues
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with tools like electric fence or libgmalloc.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">static</span></tt> - builds libtorrent as a static
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library (.a / .lib)</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">shared</span></tt> - builds libtorrent as a shared
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library (.so / .dll).</li>
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run-time library (if available on your
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platform).</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">shared</span></tt> - link dynamically against the
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run-time library (default).</li>
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information and invariant checks.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">release</span></tt> - builds libtorrent in release mode
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without invariant checks and with optimization.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">profile</span></tt> - builds libtorrent with profile
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information.</li>
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<td><p class="first">This setting will only have an affect on windows.
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Other platforms are expected to support UTF-8.</p>
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API is used. This is default.</li>
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used.</li>
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<td><p class="first">This setting only affects debug builds (where
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NDEBUG</span></tt> is not defined). It defaults to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">on</span></tt>.</p>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">on</span></tt> - internal invariant checks are enabled.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">off</span></tt> - internal invariant checks are
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disabled. The resulting executable will run
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faster than a regular debug build.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">full</span></tt> - turns on extra expensive invariant
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">debug-symbols</span></tt></td>
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is useful for building release builds with
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symbols.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">off</span></tt> - default for release builds.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">on</span></tt> - default. Includes deprecated functions
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of the API (might produce warnings during build
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when deprecated functions are used).</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">off</span></tt> - excludes deprecated functions from the
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API. Generates build errors when deprecated
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functions are used.</li>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">full-stats</span></tt></td>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">on</span></tt> - default, collects stats for IP overhead
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and DHT and trackers. This uses a little bit
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extra memory for each peer and torrent.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">off</span></tt> - only collects the standard stats for
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upload and download rate.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">auto</span></tt> - use iconv for string conversions for
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linux and mingw and other posix platforms.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">on</span></tt> - force use of iconv</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">off</span></tt> - force not using iconv (disables locale
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awareness except on windows).</li>
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<td><ul class="first last simple">
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">off</span></tt> - disable all asserts</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">peoduction</span></tt> - enable asserts in release
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builds, but don't abort, just log them to
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">extern</span> <span class="pre">char</span> <span class="pre">const*</span> <span class="pre">libtorrent_assert_log</span></tt>.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">on</span></tt> - enable asserts in debug builds (this is
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the default). On GNU systems, print a stack
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trace of the assert and some more information.</li>
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<li><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">system</span></tt> use the libc assert macro</li>
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<p>The <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">variant</span></tt> feature is <em>implicit</em>, which means you don't need to specify
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the name of the feature, just the value.</p>
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<p>The logs created when building vlog or log mode are put in a directory called
|
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">libtorrent_logs</span></tt> in the current working directory.</p>
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<p>When building the example client on windows, you need to build with
|
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">link=static</span></tt> otherwise you may get unresolved external symbols for some
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boost.program-options symbols.</p>
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<p>For more information, see the <a class="reference external" href="http://www.boost.org/tools/build/v2/index.html">Boost build v2 documentation</a>, or more
|
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specifically <a class="reference external" href="http://www.boost.org/doc/html/bbv2/reference.html#bbv2.advanced.builtins.features">the section on builtin features</a>.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="section" id="building-with-autotools">
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<h2>building with autotools</h2>
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<p>First of all, you need to install <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">automake</span></tt> and <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">autoconf</span></tt>. Many
|
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unix/linux systems comes with these preinstalled.</p>
|
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<p>The prerequisites for building libtorrent are boost.thread, boost.date_time
|
|
and boost.filesystem. Those are the <em>compiled</em> boost libraries needed. The
|
|
headers-only libraries needed include (but is not necessarily limited to)
|
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boost.bind, boost.ref, boost.multi_index, boost.optional, boost.lexical_cast,
|
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boost.integer, boost.iterator, boost.tuple, boost.array, boost.function,
|
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boost.smart_ptr, boost.preprocessor, boost.static_assert.</p>
|
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<p>If you want to build the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">client_test</span></tt> example, you'll also need boost.regex
|
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and boost.program_options.</p>
|
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<div class="section" id="step-1-generating-the-build-system">
|
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<h3>Step 1: Generating the build system</h3>
|
|
<p>No build system is present if libtorrent is checked out from CVS - it
|
|
needs to be generated first. If you're building from a released tarball,
|
|
you may skip directly to <a class="reference internal" href="#step-2-running-configure">Step 2: Running configure</a>.</p>
|
|
<p>Execute the following command to generate the build system:</p>
|
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<pre class="literal-block">
|
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./autotool.sh
|
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</pre>
|
|
</div>
|
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<div class="section" id="step-2-running-configure">
|
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<h3>Step 2: Running configure</h3>
|
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<p>In your shell, change directory to the libtorrent directory and run
|
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">./configure</span></tt>. This will look for libraries and C++ features that libtorrent
|
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is dependent on. If something is missing or can't be found it will print an
|
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error telling you what failed.</p>
|
|
<p>The most likely problem you may encounter is that the configure script won't
|
|
find the boost libraries. Make sure you have boost installed on your system.
|
|
The easiest way to install boost is usually to use the preferred package
|
|
system on your platform. Usually libraries and headers are installed in
|
|
standard directories where the compiler will find them, but sometimes that
|
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may not be the case. For example when installing boost on darwin using
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darwinports (the package system based on BSD ports) all libraries are
|
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installed to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/opt/local/lib</span></tt> and headers are installed to
|
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/opt/local/include</span></tt>. By default the compiler will not look in these
|
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directories. You have to set the enviornment variables <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">LDFLAGS</span></tt> and
|
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">CXXFLAGS</span></tt> in order to make the compiler find those libs. In this example
|
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you'd set them like this:</p>
|
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<pre class="literal-block">
|
|
export LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib
|
|
export CXXFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include
|
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</pre>
|
|
<p>It was observed on FreeBSD (release 6.0) that one needs to add '-lpthread' to
|
|
LDFLAGS, as Boost::Thread detection will fail without it, even if
|
|
Boost::Thread is installed.</p>
|
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<p>If you need to set these variables, it may be a good idea to add those lines
|
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to your <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.profile</span></tt> or <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">~/.tcshrc</span></tt> depending on your shell.</p>
|
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<p>If the boost libraries are named with a suffix on your platform, you may use
|
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the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">--with-boost-thread=</span></tt> option to specify the suffix used for the thread
|
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library in this case. For more information about these options, run:</p>
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<pre class="literal-block">
|
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./configure --help
|
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</pre>
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<p>On gentoo the boost libraries that are built with multi-threading support have
|
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the suffix <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">mt</span></tt>.</p>
|
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<p>You know that the boost libraries were found if you see the following output
|
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from the configure script:</p>
|
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<pre class="literal-block">
|
|
checking whether the Boost::DateTime library is available... yes
|
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checking for main in -lboost_date_time... yes
|
|
checking whether the Boost::Filesystem library is available... yes
|
|
checking for main in -lboost_filesystem... yes
|
|
checking whether the Boost::Thread library is available... yes
|
|
checking for main in -lboost_thread... yes
|
|
</pre>
|
|
<p>Another possible source of problems may be if the path to your libtorrent
|
|
directory contains spaces. Make sure you either rename the directories with
|
|
spaces in their names to remove the spaces or move the libtorrent directory.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="section" id="creating-a-debug-build">
|
|
<h3>Creating a debug build</h3>
|
|
<p>To tell configure to build a debug version (with debug info, asserts
|
|
and invariant checks enabled), you have to run the configure script
|
|
with the following option:</p>
|
|
<pre class="literal-block">
|
|
./configure --enable-debug=yes
|
|
</pre>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="section" id="creating-a-release-build">
|
|
<h3>Creating a release build</h3>
|
|
<p>To tell the configure to build a release version (without debug info,
|
|
asserts and invariant checks), you have to run the configure script
|
|
with the following option:</p>
|
|
<pre class="literal-block">
|
|
./configure --enable-debug=no
|
|
</pre>
|
|
<p>The above option make use of -DNDEBUG, which is used throughout libtorrent.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="section" id="id7">
|
|
<h3>Step 3: Building libtorrent</h3>
|
|
<p>Once the configure script is run successfully, you just type <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">make</span></tt> and
|
|
libtorrent, the examples and the tests will be built.</p>
|
|
<p>When libtorrent is built it may be a good idea to run the tests, you do this
|
|
by running <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">make</span> <span class="pre">check</span></tt>.</p>
|
|
<p>If you want to build a release version (without debug info, asserts and
|
|
invariant checks), you have to rerun the configure script and rebuild, like this:</p>
|
|
<pre class="literal-block">
|
|
./configure --disable-debug
|
|
make clean
|
|
make
|
|
</pre>
|
|
</div>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="section" id="building-with-other-build-systems">
|
|
<h2>building with other build systems</h2>
|
|
<p>If you're building in MS Visual Studio, you may have to set the compiler
|
|
options "force conformance in for loop scope", "treat wchar_t as built-in
|
|
type" and "Enable Run-Time Type Info" to Yes.</p>
|
|
</div>
|
|
<div class="section" id="build-configurations">
|
|
<h2>build configurations</h2>
|
|
<p>By default libtorrent is built In debug mode, and will have pretty expensive
|
|
invariant checks and asserts built into it. If you want to disable such checks
|
|
(you want to do that in a release build) you can see the table below for which
|
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defines you can use to control the build.</p>
|
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<table border="1" class="docutils">
|
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<colgroup>
|
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<col width="45%" />
|
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<col width="55%" />
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<thead valign="bottom">
|
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<tr><th class="head">macro</th>
|
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<th class="head">description</th>
|
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NDEBUG</span></tt></td>
|
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<td>If you define this macro, all asserts,
|
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invariant checks and general debug code will be
|
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removed. Since there is quite a lot of code in
|
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in header files in libtorrent, it may be
|
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important to define the symbol consistently
|
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across compilation units, including the clients
|
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files. Potential problems is different
|
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compilation units having different views of
|
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structs and class layouts and sizes.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_LOGGING</span></tt></td>
|
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<td>This macro will enable logging of the session
|
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events, such as tracker announces and incoming
|
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connections (as well as blocked connections).</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_DISABLE_GEO_IP</span></tt></td>
|
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<td>This is defined by default by the Jamfile. It
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disables the GeoIP features, and avoids linking
|
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against LGPL:ed code.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_VERBOSE_LOGGING</span></tt></td>
|
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<td>If you define this macro, every peer connection
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will log its traffic to a log file as well as
|
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the session log.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_STORAGE_DEBUG</span></tt></td>
|
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<td>This will enable extra expensive invariant
|
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checks in the storage, including logging of
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piece sorting.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_UPNP_LOGGING</span></tt></td>
|
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<td>Generates a "upnp.log" file with the UPnP
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traffic. This is very useful when debugging
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support for various UPnP routers.
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support for various UPnP routers.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_DISK_STATS</span></tt></td>
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<td>This will create a log of all disk activity
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which later can parsed and graphed using
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">parse_disk_log.py</span></tt>.</td>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_STATS</span></tt></td>
|
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<td>This will generate a log with transfer rates,
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downloading torrents, seeding torrents, peers,
|
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connecting peers and disk buffers in use. The
|
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log can be parsed and graphed with
|
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">parse_session_stats.py</span></tt>.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">UNICODE</span></tt></td>
|
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<td>If building on windows this will make sure the
|
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UTF-8 strings in pathnames are converted into
|
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UTF-16 before they are passed to the file
|
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operations.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_DISABLE_POOL_ALLOCATOR</span></tt></td>
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<td>Disables use of <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">boost::pool<></span></tt>.</td>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_LINKING_SHARED</span></tt></td>
|
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<td>If this is defined when including the
|
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libtorrent headers, the classes and functions
|
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will be tagged with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">__declspec(dllimport)</span></tt>
|
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on msvc and default visibility on GCC 4 and
|
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later. Set this in your project if you're
|
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linking against libtorrent as a shared library.
|
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(This is set by the Jamfile when
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">link=shared</span></tt> is set).</td>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_BUILDING_SHARED</span></tt></td>
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<td>If this is defined, the functions and classes
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in libtorrent are marked with
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">__declspec(dllexport)</span></tt> on msvc, or with
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default visibility on GCC 4 and later. This
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should be defined when building libtorrent as
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a shared library. (This is set by the Jamfile
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when <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">link=shared</span></tt> is set).</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_DISABLE_DHT</span></tt></td>
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<td>If this is defined, the support for trackerless
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torrents will be disabled.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_DHT_VERBOSE_LOGGING</span></tt></td>
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<td>This will enable verbose logging of the DHT
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protocol traffic.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_DISABLE_ENCRYPTION</span></tt></td>
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<td>This will disable any encryption support and
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the dependencies of a crypto library.
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Encryption support is the peer connection
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encrypted supported by clients such as
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uTorrent, Azureus and KTorrent.
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If this is not defined, either
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_USE_OPENSSL</span></tt> or
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<tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_USE_GCRYPT</span></tt> must be defined.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">_UNICODE</span></tt></td>
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<td>On windows, this will cause the file IO
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use wide character API, to properly support
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non-ansi characters.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_DISABLE_RESOLVE_COUNTRIES</span></tt></td>
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<td>Defining this will disable the ability to
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resolve countries of origin for peer IPs.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_DISABLE_INVARIANT_CHECKS</span></tt></td>
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<td>This will disable internal invariant checks in
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libtorrent. The invariant checks can sometime
|
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be quite expensive, they typically don't scale
|
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very well. This option can be used to still
|
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build in debug mode, with asserts enabled, but
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make the resulting executable faster.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_EXPENSIVE_INVARIANT_CHECKS</span></tt></td>
|
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<td>This will enable extra expensive invariant
|
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checks. Useful for finding particular bugs
|
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or for running before releases.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_NO_DEPRECATE</span></tt></td>
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<td>This will exclude all deprecated functions from
|
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the header files and cpp files.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_PRODUCTION_ASSERTS</span></tt></td>
|
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<td>Define to either 0 or 1. Enables assert logging
|
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in release builds.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_NO_ASSERTS</span></tt></td>
|
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<td>Disables all asserts.</td>
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</tr>
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<tr><td><tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">TORRENT_USE_SYSTEM_ASSERTS</span></tt></td>
|
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<td>Uses the libc assert macro rather then the
|
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custom one.</td>
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</tr>
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</tbody>
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</table>
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<p>If you experience that libtorrent uses unreasonable amounts of cpu, it will
|
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definitely help to define <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">NDEBUG</span></tt>, since it will remove the invariant checks
|
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within the library.</p>
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</div>
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<div class="section" id="building-openssl-for-windows">
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<h2>building openssl for windows</h2>
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<p>To build openssl for windows with Visual Studio 7.1 (2003) execute the following commands
|
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in a command shell:</p>
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<pre class="literal-block">
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perl Configure VC-WIN32 --prefix="c:/openssl
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call ms\do_nasm
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call "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\vc7\bin\vcvars32.bat"
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nmake -f ms\nt.mak
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copy inc32\openssl "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\vc7\include\"
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copy out32\libeay32.lib "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\vc7\lib"
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copy out32\ssleay32.lib "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2003\vc7\lib"
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</pre>
|
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<p>This will also install the headers and library files in the visual studio directories to
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be picked up by libtorrent.</p>
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