Author: Torsten Bergander

building libtorrent-0.11 on ubuntu Edy Eft 6.10

  1. Install prerequisites (maybe cann be stripped down but it works):

    sudo apt-get install bjam boost-build libboost-date-time-dev
    libboost-date-time1.33.1 libboost-filesystem-dev
    libboost-filesystem1.33.1 libboost-graph-dev libboost-graph1.33.1
    libboost-iostreams-dev libboost-iostreams1.33.1
    libboost-program-options-dev libboost-program-options1.33.1
    libboost-regex-dev libboost-regex1.33.1 libboost-serialization-dev
    libboost-signals-dev libboost-signals1.33.1 libboost-test-dev
    libboost-test1.33.1 libboost-thread-dev libboost-thread1.33.1
    libboost-wave-dev libboost-dev
    
  2. Get release tar ball (0.11 at time of writing), unpack, change into:

    libtorrent-0.11 dir
    
  3. Build and install:

    export BOOST_BUILD_PATH=/usr/share/boost-build/tools
    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install