[Libtorrent-devel] MSVC Development

[Josef Drexler]

On Oct 25, 2008, at 5:36 AM, Anthony Hughes wrote:
> I am a rather new developer.  I have libtorrent compiling as a  
> dynamic library on Linux for the use in a Mozilla extension.  I was  
> wondering if anyone has compiled libtorrent similarly for Windows  
> (aka using MSVC).  Is Windows a supported platform for libtorrent?   
> If anyone could link me to some documentation or has a guide on how  
> to do this (if it is indeed possible), I would very much appreciate  
> it.  It would save me hours, if not days, of trial and error.


It's not a supported platform, libtorrent requires POSIX  
functionality and semantics (such as being able to close files while  
still keeping a mapping open on them). At the very least you would  
have to use cygwin or another POSIX emulation layer.

But I remember several people trying to make libtorrent/rtorrent work  
on Windows, without any visible success so far. I don't know what  
specifically was the problem though and if it'd be possible to fix  
however.

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Josef Drexler
josef at ttdpatch.net