About

Transmission is a fast, easy, and free BitTorrent client. It comes in several flavors:

• A native Mac OS X GUI application
• GTK+ and Qt GUI applications for Linux, BSD, etc.
• A headless daemon for servers and routers
• A web UI for remote controlling any of the above

Visit https://transmissionbt.com/ for more information.

Building

Transmission has an Xcode project file (Transmission.xcodeproj) for building in Xcode.

For a more detailed description, and dependencies, visit: https://github.com/transmission/transmission/wiki

Building a Transmission release from the command line

$ xz -d -c transmission-2.11.tar.xz | tar xf -
$ cd transmission-2.11
$ ./configure
$ make
$ sudo make install

Building Transmission from the nightly builds

Download a tarball from https://build.transmissionbt.com/job/trunk-linux-inc/ and follow the steps from the previous section.

If you're new to building programs from source code, this is typically easier than building from SVN.

Building Transmission from SVN (first time)

$ svn co svn://svn.transmissionbt.com/Transmission/trunk Transmission
$ cd Transmission
$ ./autogen.sh
$ make
$ sudo make install

Building Transmission from SVN (updating)

$ cd Transmission
$ make clean
$ svn up
$ ./update-version-h.sh
$ make
$ sudo make install

Notes for building on Solaris' C compiler: User av reports success with this invocation:

./configure CC=c99 CXX=CC CFLAGS='-D__EXTENSIONS__ -mt'