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This article discusses 5 best torrent client software for Windows 10.When it comes to peer to peer file sharing, the BitTorrent protocol is probably the most popular way of distributing digital content.
The official uTorrent Remote app now available for Windows Phone
uTorrent (www.utorrent.com), now owned by BitTorrent proper is a free and now ad-supported torrent client that is used by many people out there today. And although there are plenty of third-party apps for the service out on Windows Phone, it’s still nice to see the platform getting officially recognized through a dedicated client.
The uTorrent Remote app allows you to connect to your PC or Mac remotely to manage your bit torrents from afar. No, it’s not a full torrent client to run on your phone—something for which we don’t see too much practicality for—but it is a powerful tool for those of you who rely on uTorrent’s automatic RSS import feature and more powerful options.
The Windows Phone client is of course free and it seems to have all the bases covered for features, although in this initial release it appears the Live Tile is not taken advantage of as a feature. From the app description:
“Torrent Remote Beta is part of the latest µTorrent for Windows and Mac. This Windows Phone app securely connects to your home computer from anywhere you have an internet connection. Use µTorrent Remote to add, remove, start, stop torrents and check download progress of all your torrents. Check your RSS feeds and start downloads on the go. Use your mobile browser to find torrents and they will automatically be added to your home µTorrent! Completed downloads can even be shifted directly back to your Windows device for local playback.”
If you use uTorrent, you can grab the Remote app here in the Windows Phone Store. via: WindowsPhoneApps.es
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Cygwin has a built in rTorrent package, so you only need to use the following method for installing rTorrent, if you need XMLRPC-C support.
Installing rTorrent on Windows
To be able to run rTorrent on Windows, you are going to need Cygwin.
Installing Cygwin
Download Cygwin 1.7 (or newer) from the Cygwin page (direct link).
Start the installer, choose 'Install from internet', select a directory to install Cygwin, and one for the packages to be downloaded to, then set up your connection and pick a mirror.
You're going to need the following packages in order to compile and run rTorrent:
cppunit
gcc4
git
libcurl-devel
libncurses-devel
libtool
make
openssl-devel
patch
pkg-config
subversion
wget
These might require some other packages, let them be installed. Wait until the installer downloads and installs the necessary packages, check wherever you want shortcuts, and close the installer. When you're done, start Cygwin (if you choose not create any shortcuts, you can start Cygwin with the cygwin.bat in your installation directory).
Now you can proceed with rTorrent.
Installing libsigc++
Since there is no libsigc++ package for Cygwin, you're going to need to compile this one first. By default, Cygwin has no /usr/localr/src, so create one.
mkdir -p /usr/local/src
Download, compile and install the latest libsigc++ source from the Gnome ftp site - at the time of writing this manual, it was 2.2.10.
cd /usr/local/src/
wget http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sourc...+-2.3.1.tar.xz
tar xJvf libsigc++-2.3.1.tar.bz2
cd /usr/local/src/libsigc++-2.3.1
./configure
make
make install
cd ..
Installing libTorrent
Download the latest libTorrent source from the git repository, compile, and install it.
cd /usr/local/src/
git clone https://github.com/rakshasa/libtorrent libtorrent-git
cd /usr/local/src/libtorrent-git
./autogen.sh
./configure --disable-mincore
make
make install
cd ..
Installing XMLRPC-C (optional)
If you want to be able to control rTorrent via XMLRPC-C, let's say by rTWi. For that, you need to install XMLRPC-C, preferably something over version 1.07.
cd /usr/local/src/
svn co https://xmlrpc-c.svn.sourceforge.net...lrpc-c/stable/ xmlrpc-c-svn
cd /usr/local/src/xmlrpc-c-svn
./configure --disable-cplusplus
make
make install
cd ..
If the 'make install' fails, try to copy the necessary files by yourself.
mkdir -p /usr/local/include/xmlrpc-c
cp /usr/local/src/xmlrpc-c-svn/include/xmlrpc-c/*.h /usr/local/include/xmlrpc-c/
ln -s /usr/local/include/xmlrpc-c/oldxmlrpc.h /usr/local/include/xmlrpc.h
ln -s /usr/local/include/xmlrpc-c/server.h /usr/local/include/xmlrpc_server.h
ln -s /usr/local/include/xmlrpc-c/server_abyss.h /usr/local/include/xmlrpc_abyss.h
ln -s /usr/local/include/xmlrpc-c/server_w32httpsys.h /usr/local/include/xmlrpc_server_w32httpsys.h
ln -s /usr/local/include/xmlrpc-c/client.h /usr/local/include/xmlrpc_client.h
ln -s /usr/local/include/xmlrpc-c/server_cgi.h /usr/local/include/xmlrpc_cgi.h;
cp /usr/local/src/xmlrpc-c-svn/xmlrpc-c-config /usr/local/bin/
cp /usr/local/src/xmlrpc-c-svn/lib/abyss/src/*.a /usr/local/lib/
cp /usr/local/src/xmlrpc-c-svn/lib/abyss/src/*.dll /usr/local/lib/
cp /usr/local/src/xmlrpc-c-svn/lib/expat/xmlparse/*.a /usr/local/lib/
cp /usr/local/src/xmlrpc-c-svn/lib/expat/xmlparse/*.dll /usr/local/lib/
cp /usr/local/src/xmlrpc-c-svn/lib/expat/xmltok/*.a /usr/local/lib/
cp /usr/local/src/xmlrpc-c-svn/lib/expat/xmltok/*.dll /usr/local/lib/
cp /usr/local/src/xmlrpc-c-svn/lib/libutil/*.a /usr/local/lib/
cp /usr/local/src/xmlrpc-c-svn/lib/libutil/*.dll /usr/local/lib/
cp /usr/local/src/xmlrpc-c-svn/src/*.a /usr/local/lib/
cp /usr/local/src/xmlrpc-c-svn/src/*.dll /usr/local/lib/
Installing rTorrent
Now download the latest rTorrent source from the git repository.
You are going to need to do some modification on the source code. Download and apply this patch (see ticket #1184 and ticket #1495 at the rTorrent trac). After you're done, you can compile and install rTorrent.
cd /usr/local/src/
git clone https://github.com/rakshasa/rtorrent rtorrent-git
cd /usr/local/src/rtorrent-git
wget http://static.jmk.hu/rtwi/downloads/misc/rtow.diff patch
patch -p0 < rtow.diff
./autogen.sh
./configure --with-xmlrpc-c
make
make install
cd ..
If 'make' fails, with the message 'fatal error: ncurses.h: No such file or directory' you might need to run ./configure with the CXXFLAGS option, i.e.:
./configure --with-xmlrpc-c CXXFLAGS=-I/usr/include/ncurses
You are now ready to run rTorrent on Windows, just type rtorrent into your Cygwin window.
Using rTorrent on Windows without installing Cygwin
Download rTorrent binaries for Windows
You can find all releases in the download section.
Direct download (7z archive)
Download and extract the .7z archive to a directory of your choice.
You can download the 7-Zip software from http://7-zip.org/.
BitTorrent download
Download the .torrent file and feed it to your current BitTorrent client. After the download is complete, move/rename the directory as you wish.
Configure rTorrent on Windows
The .rtorrent.rc configuration file can be found in the bin directory. There are some settings already set up for ease of usage, please do not modify them, unless you know what you are doing.
The default session directory is .session, and the default download directory is torrent.
You can access your partitions thru the cygdrive directory from rTorrent.
You are now ready to run rTorrent on Windows, just create a shortcut pointing to the rTorrent.cmd file, or start it directly.