wiki:MovedToGitHub/Building

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Xcode 4.2 or later is now required to build on Mac.

Building Transmission

  1. Building Transmission
    1. Getting the Source
        1. Recommended
        2. Experimental
    2. On Mac OSX
    3. On Unix
      1. Prerequisites
        1. Ubuntu
        2. CentOS 5.4
        3. Normal
        4. RPM users
      2. Building from a tarball
      3. Building from an SVN snapshot
        1. First Time
        2. Updating
    4. On Windows
      1. Cygwin environment
      2. Native Windows
    5. Switches

If you are searching for a HOWTO, covering a specific distribution or device (NAS, router, ...), have a look at the Running Transmission on a headless machine page

Getting the Source

Source code for official releases can be found on our ​download page.

Experimental

Automated source code tarballs including the newest code ​are now available, too!

If you want to check out the source code yourself from svn, open a terminal window and type: 

$ svn co svn://svn.transmissionbt.com/Transmission/trunk Transmission

On Mac OSX

Transmission has an Xcode project file (Transmission.xcodeproj) for building in Xcode. Make sure you have this software:

  • Mac OS X 10.7 or newer
  • Mac OS X 10.7 SDK
  • Xcode 4.2 or newer

Building the project on Mac requires the source to be retrieved from SVN. Pre-packaged source code will not compile.

If building from source is too daunting for you, check out the ​nightly builds.
(Note: These are untested snapshots. Use them with care.)

On Unix

Prerequisites

Ubuntu

On Ubuntu, you can install the required development tools with this command: 

$ sudo apt-get install build-essential automake autoconf libtool pkg-config intltool libcurl4-openssl-dev libglib2.0-dev libevent-dev libminiupnpc-dev libminiupnpc5 libappindicator-dev

After you install those you can skip to this section.

CentOS 5.4

The packages you need are:

  • gcc
  • gcc-c++
  • m4
  • make
  • automake
  • libtool
  • gettext
  • openssl-devel

Or simply run the following command: 

$ yum install gcc gcc-c++ m4 make automake libtool gettext openssl-devel

However, Transmission needs other packages unavailable in yum:

Before building Transmission, you need to set the pkgconfig environment setting: 

$ export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig

After you install those you can skip to this section.

Normal

If this is your first time compiling on Unix, you'll need a few basic tools:

  • gcc
  • libtool
  • gettext 0.14.1 or newer
  • intltool 0.40 or newer

If you're planning to build from SVN:

  • automake 1.9 or newer
  • autoconf 2.54 or newer

Once you've got the basics out of the way, here are the libraries that Transmission needs to have in order to build:

  • OpenSSL 0.9.8 or newer, preferably ssl or gnutls support.
  • libcurl 7.16.3 or newer
  • GTK+ 2.6 or newer (only needed by the GTK+ gui)
  • libnotify 0.4.4 (optional, and only needed by the GTK+ gui)
  • DBUS 0.70 (optional, and only needed by the GTK+ gui)

RPM users

You'll also need to install the corresponding -devel packages.

Building from a tarball

$ tar xvjf transmission-1.76.tar.bz2
$ cd transmission-1.76
$ ./configure -q && make -s
$ su (if necessary for the next line)
$ make install

Building from an SVN snapshot

First Time

$ svn co svn://svn.transmissionbt.com/Transmission/trunk Transmission
$ cd Transmission
$ ./autogen.sh && make -s
$ su (if necessary for the next line)
$ make install

Updating

$ cd Transmission
$ make clean
$ svn up
$ make -s
$ su (if necessary for the next line)
$ make install

On Windows

For Windows XP and above there are several choices:

Cygwin environment

With Cygwin ​http://cygwin.com/ installed, the CLI tools (transmission-remote, transmissioncli) and the daemon can be built easily.

No patches needed(*), all the recent versions of Transmission built almost out-of-the-box, and the CLI tools work better under Cygwin that those built with MinGW.

(*) With version 2.0 and above, libevent is not bundled and it's also not in Cygwin distribution... so you need to build it (which is as easy as ./configure, make install). To build transmission you may need to add LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" to the configure script (LIBEVENT_LIBS doesn't seem to work when it comes to build all the test programs). Additionally libutp needs deleting -ansi on the Makefile.

Native Windows

With a MinGW ​http://mingw.org/ development environment, the Gtk and the Qt GUI applications can be built. The CLI tools can also be built, and in general work fine, but may fail if you use foreign characters as parameters (MinGW doesn't pass those parameters, in fact the program receives garbage).

The procedure: wiki:BuildingTransmissionQtWindows

Switches

The transmission ./configure (or ./autogen.sh) script allows you to switch on/off certain parts. To use these, you'll either use --enable-* or --disable-*. eg. To disable the GTK client: --disable-gtk.

The switches that are available are:

  • gtk = enables GTK+ client (default)
  • daemon = enables transmission-daemon and *-remote client (default)
  • cli = enables cli client (default. deprecated, consider using the daemon)
  • libnotify = enables lib notify (default)
  • nls = enables native language support (default)
  • mac = enables Mac client (default, if possible)
  • wx = enables wxWidgets client (unsupported)
  • beos = enables beos client (unsupported)

Note: --disable-nls removes the dependancy on gettext and intltool. It's designed for, and should only be used on, embedded devices. If you do have GTK+ installed on your box, you must also specify --disable-gtk.