bittorrent-codex-docs/10 Notes/Transmission.md

tags	link	source	related-to
bittorrent	https://transmissionbt.com	https://github.com/transmission/transmission

#bittorrent

link	https://transmissionbt.com
source	https://github.com/transmission/transmission
related-to

Learn BitTorrent client. One of the three popular clients, the other are Deluge and qBittorrent, with the most attractive looking website. Comparing to the other two, Transmission does not depend on libtorrent-rasterbar, but rather has its own implementation of the BitTorrent protocol.

As noted in GitHub’s REDME, Transmission's documentation is currently out-of-date, but the team has recently begun a new project to update it and is looking for volunteers. If you're interested, please feel free to submit pull requests!

It supports all major OS and has a native macos support.

The latest release is from 30 May 2024.

How does it look like?

! or in light mode:

! !

Transmission does not seem to support version 2 torrent files and magnet links.

Settings

• Network !
• Peers ! Transmission has the most limited settings that are available to the user. There are also GTK and QT versions, which on a Mac look just terrible... (I did not yet check how they build and look on ubuntu).

Building

Some loose notes for now... TBF...

CMake Error in gtk/CMakeLists.txt:
  Imported target "transmission::gtk_impl" includes non-existent path

    "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX13.sdk/usr/include/ffi"

  in its INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.  Possible reasons include:

  * The path was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location.

  * An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully.

  * The installation package was faulty and references files it does not
  provide.



CMake Error in gtk/CMakeLists.txt:
  Imported target "transmission::gtk_impl" includes non-existent path

    "/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX13.sdk/usr/include/ffi"

  in its INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.  Possible reasons include:

  * The path was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location.

  * An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully.

  * The installation package was faulty and references files it does not
  provide.



-- Generating done (0.2s)
CMake Generate step failed.  Build files cannot be regenerated correctly.
~/code/open-source/bittorrent/transmission-mac-cmake(main)
» brew uninstall gtk4 gtkmm4                                                                                        1 ↵
Uninstalling /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gtk4/4.16.3... (598 files, 57.8MB)
Uninstalling /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gtkmm4/4.16.0... (700 files, 9.7MB)
==> Autoremoving 8 unneeded formulae:
cairomm
gdk-pixbuf
glibmm
graphene
hicolor-icon-theme
libepoxy
libsigc++
pangomm
Uninstalling /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gdk-pixbuf/2.42.12... (152 files, 4.0MB)
Uninstalling /opt/homebrew/Cellar/pangomm/2.54.0... (70 files, 755.8KB)
Uninstalling /opt/homebrew/Cellar/graphene/1.10.8... (37 files, 1MB)
Uninstalling /opt/homebrew/Cellar/hicolor-icon-theme/0.18... (8 files, 80.8KB)
Uninstalling /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libepoxy/1.5.10... (11 files, 2.6MB)
Uninstalling /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glibmm/2.82.0... (449 files, 6.4MB)
Uninstalling /opt/homebrew/Cellar/cairomm/1.18.0... (43 files, 592.4KB)
Uninstalling /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libsigc++/3.6.0... (52 files, 378.3KB)
~/code/open-source/bittorrent/transmission-mac-cmake(main)
» cmake -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
-- Looking for clang-tidy
-- Looking for clang-tidy - not found
-- Configuring done (0.4s)
CMake Error in gtk/CMakeLists.txt:
  Imported target "transmission::gtk_impl" includes non-existent path

    "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gtkmm4/4.16.0/include/gtkmm-4.0"

  in its INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.  Possible reasons include:

  * The path was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location.

  * An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully.

  * The installation package was faulty and references files it does not
  provide.



CMake Error in gtk/CMakeLists.txt:
  Imported target "transmission::gtk_impl" includes non-existent path

    "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gtkmm4/4.16.0/include/gtkmm-4.0"

  in its INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.  Possible reasons include:

  * The path was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location.

  * An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully.

  * The installation package was faulty and references files it does not
  provide.



-- Generating done (0.2s)
CMake Generate step failed.  Build files cannot be regenerated correctly.
~/code/open-source/bittorrent/transmission-mac-cmake(main)
» ninja clean                                                                                                       1 ↵
ninja: error: loading 'build.ninja': No such file or directory
~/code/open-source/bittorrent/transmission-mac-cmake(main)
» rm -rf CMakeCache.txt CMakeFiles/                                                                                 1 ↵
~/code/open-source/bittorrent/transmission-mac-cmake(main)
» cmake -B build -G Ninja -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=RelWithDebInfo
-- Looking for clang-tidy
-- Looking for clang-tidy - not found
-- Configuring done (0.5s)
CMake Error in gtk/CMakeLists.txt:
  Imported target "transmission::gtk_impl" includes non-existent path

    "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gtkmm4/4.16.0/include/gtkmm-4.0"

  in its INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.  Possible reasons include:

  * The path was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location.

  * An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully.

  * The installation package was faulty and references files it does not
  provide.



CMake Error in gtk/CMakeLists.txt:
  Imported target "transmission::gtk_impl" includes non-existent path

    "/opt/homebrew/Cellar/gtkmm4/4.16.0/include/gtkmm-4.0"

  in its INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.  Possible reasons include:

  * The path was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location.

  * An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully.

  * The installation package was faulty and references files it does not
  provide.



-- Generating done (0.2s)
CMake Generate step failed.  Build files cannot be regenerated correctly.

https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/macos.html#supported-versions https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/discussions/5164 https://github.com/fontforge/fontforge/issues/5153

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/1fs551h/macos_15_sequoia_update_caused_include_errors_in_c/

xcrun -sdk macosx --show-sdk-path
pkg-config --cflags gtkmm-4.0
pkg-config --cflags gtk4

CMakeLists.txt around line 361:

if(GTK_FOUND)
    add_library(transmission::gtk_impl INTERFACE IMPORTED)

    target_compile_options(transmission::gtk_impl
        INTERFACE
            ${GTK${GTK_VERSION}_CFLAGS_OTHER})

    target_include_directories(transmission::gtk_impl
        INTERFACE
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gtk4/4.16.3/include/gtk-4.0 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/pango/1.54.0/include/pango-1.0 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/harfbuzz/10.0.1_1/include/harfbuzz 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fribidi/1.0.16/include/fribidi 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/graphite2/1.3.14/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gdk-pixbuf/2.42.12/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libtiff/4.7.0/include 
            /opt/homebrew/opt/zstd/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/xz/5.6.3/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/jpeg-turbo/3.0.4/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/cairo/1.18.2/include/cairo 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/fontconfig/2.15.0/include 
            /opt/homebrew/opt/freetype/include/freetype2 
            /opt/homebrew/opt/libpng/include/libpng16 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libxext/1.3.6/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libxrender/0.9.11/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libx11/1.8.10/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libxcb/1.17.0/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libxau/1.0.11/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libxdmcp/1.1.5/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/pixman/0.42.2/include/pixman-1 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/graphene/1.10.8/include/graphene-1.0 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/graphene/1.10.8/lib/graphene-1.0/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glib/2.82.2/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glib/2.82.2/include/glib-2.0 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glib/2.82.2/lib/glib-2.0/include 
            /opt/homebrew/opt/gettext/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/pcre2/10.44/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/xorgproto/2024.1/include 
            /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX15.0.sdk/usr/include/ffi
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gtkmm4/4.16.0/include/gtkmm-4.0 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gtkmm4/4.16.0/lib/gtkmm-4.0/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/pangomm/2.54.0/include/pangomm-2.48 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/pangomm/2.54.0/lib/pangomm-2.48/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glibmm/2.82.0/include/giomm-2.68 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glibmm/2.82.0/lib/giomm-2.68/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glib/2.82.2/include/gio-unix-2.0 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glibmm/2.82.0/include/glibmm-2.68 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glibmm/2.82.0/lib/glibmm-2.68/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/glib/2.82.2/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/cairomm/1.18.0/include/cairomm-1.16 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/cairomm/1.18.0/lib/cairomm-1.16/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libsigc++/3.6.0/include/sigc++-3.0 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libsigc++/3.6.0/lib/sigc++-3.0/include 
            /opt/homebrew/Cellar/gtk4/4.16.3/include/gtk-4.0/unix-print)
            # ${GTK${GTK_VERSION}_INCLUDE_DIRS})

    target_link_directories(transmission::gtk_impl
        INTERFACE
            ${GTK${GTK_VERSION}_LIBRARY_DIRS})

    target_link_libraries(transmission::gtk_impl
        INTERFACE
            ${GTK${GTK_VERSION}_LIBRARIES})
endif()