Sunday, November 14, 2010

Transmission-Daemon for Windows

Here are my Windows builds of transmission-daemon. I built it with Cygwin's GCC compiler. 7-zip or a newest version of unzip should be used to unpack them.


The package contains the following files:


  • Cygwin1.dll

    Cygwin Unix layer

  • transmission-cli.exe

    Command-line Bittorrent Client

  • transmission-create.exe

    Create .torrent files

  • transmission-daemon.exe

    Transmission server

  • transmission-edit.exe

    Edit .torrent files

  • transmission-remote.exe

    Control the transmission daemon

  • transmission-show.exe

    Show .torrent contents


Unpack the package into a folder, for example, C:\Program Files\Transmission. Then, create a shortcut with the following command:

transmission-daemon -b -o -m -ep -a 127.0.0.1,192.168.*.* --utp


Double-clicking the shortcut will not open any window. However, transmission-daemon is silently running in the background. You can control the daemon with any Web browser by opening this local Web address:


http://127.0.0.1:9091/

Although you can control transmission-daemon with a Web browser, it's not a pretty thing to do so. I recommend using transmission-remote-dotnet or transmission-remote-gui. The following is a screenshot for Transmission Remote .NET which is written in C#.



And, below you can see Transmission Remote GUI that's written in Pascal.




The settings for the daemon are stored in the ~/.config/transmission-daemon folder. Make sure the HOME environment variable points correctly to your folder.



Also, TRANSMISSION_WEB_HOME environment variable should be correctly set up to use the web browser interface.



To learn how to build transmission-daemon for Windows, read this post.

5 comments:

  1. Thank you! It is an only solution that works for me! I tried compiling it under cygwin, and also tried winport-transmission.

    Thank You!

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  2. Thank you very much for your hard work, this works great where Qt does not!! ;)

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  3. It's great thing you do!
    My wife and I, very much appreciate to you. = )

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  4. Awesome! thanks.
    I do however have an issue when following your guide. The exe files I compile are about 8 MB larger than the ones in your download. How can I get smaller executables?

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  5. XiN_1,

    Use upx to shrink executable files:

    upx --best --strip-relocs=0 transmission-daemon.exe

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