Torrent Library for C++, Windows

c++ windows p2p bittorrent
JonaGik picture JonaGik · Jun 27, 2011 · Viewed 7.8k times · Source

I'm looking for a library which allows my C++ application (run in Windows) to download torrents. I can't, however, find any out there.

Can someone please point me in the right direction?

Thanks in advance.

Answer

Merlyn Morgan-Graham picture Merlyn Morgan-Graham · Jun 27, 2011

http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/

It is used in Halite, which is a pretty good client :)

The library has a BSD license, and seems to be used in quite a few clients:

http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/projects.html

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