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A tiny, hackable BitTorrent client written in modern C++. Based on Rasterbar-libtorrent to provide high performance and low memory usage.
- Full support for BitTorrent 2.0 (BEP-52), v1, v2 and v1+v2 hybrid torrents.
- Supports DHT, PeX, LSD, UPnP.
- (Azureus-style) peer ID:
-PI-. Example:-PI0151-(major: 0, minor: 15, patch: 1). - User agent:
PicoTorrent/x.y.z. - Native look-and-feel across Windows versions.
- Easy to use with high performance.
The portable version of PicoTorrent requires manual installation of the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2019.
To successfully build PicoTorrent, you need the following libraries and applications installed,
- CMake (>= v3.14).
- Visual Studio 2019 Build Tools (or regular Visual Studio 2019) with the C++ toolset.
- OpenSSL v1.1.1 (not the light version) for the architecture you plan on building. Both Win32 and Win64 can be installed side by side.
- Boost 1.73.0.
- Chocolatey (Optional) if you plan to build or test the Chocolatey package.
- .NET Core. Used for the build scripts.
λ git submodule update --init --recursive
λ dotnet tool restore
λ dotnet cake --platorm=[x86|x64] --configuration=[Debug|Release]
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Copyright (c) Viktor Elofsson and contributors. PicoTorrent is provided as-is under the MIT license. For more information see LICENSE.