Author: Torsten Bergander

building libtorrent on SuSE 10.1 (i586)

  1. Prerequisites

    Install packages boost and boost-devel from packman: http://packman.links2linux.org/package/boost/10887

    There are standard packages delivered with the distribution. They give some headaches when building new stuff, so the above mentioned ones fix these problems. All other potential prerequisites are available via yast in the standard distribution.

  2. Building and installing the lib

    Get the libtorrent-011 release tarbal, unpack and change into its directory. Then:

    ./configure --with-boost-date-time=boost_date_time
--with-boost-filesystem=boost_filesystem
--with-boost-thread=boost_thread-mt --with-boost-regex=boost_regex
--with-boost-program-options=boost_program_options --disable-debug
make
sudo make install

    If you don't give the --with-boost parameters configure does not find the main in the libs and fails. Also, when later installing e.g. btg, you have to make sure to use the same parameters there, otherwise it is bound to fail.