picotorrent

PicoTorrent

A tiny, hackable BitTorrent client written in modern C++. Based on Rasterbar-libtorrent to provide high performance and low memory usage.

Quick facts

• 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.

Download for Windows

Building PicoTorrent

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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License

Copyright (c) Viktor Elofsson and contributors. PicoTorrent is provided as-is under the MIT license. For more information see LICENSE.