A tiny, hackable BitTorrent client written in modern C++. Based on Rasterbar-libtorrent to provide high performance and low memory usage.
- (Azureus-style) peer ID:
-PI-. Example:-PI0091-(major: 0, minor: 09, patch: 1). - User agent:
PicoTorrent/x.y.z. - The x86 executable is less than 1.5MB if compressed with UPX.
- Native look-and-feel across Windows versions.
- Support for magnet link pre-loading.
PicoTorrent depends only on what Rasterbar-libtorrent needs (Boost.System and OpenSSL) and all dependencies are conveniently pre-packaged in a NuGet package which will be downloaded as a part of the build process.
To successfully build PicoTorrent, you need the following tools installed,
- CMake (>= v3.8) (installed and added to
PATH) - Visual Studio 2017 (w/ C++ toolset)
- Chocolatey (>= v0.10.7)
Build PicoTorrent by running the following in a PowerShell prompt,
PS> .\build.ps1
Copyright (c) Viktor Elofsson and contributors. PicoTorrent is provided as-is under the MIT license. For more information see LICENSE.