This short guide is only possible because of the Transmission, OpenSSL, curl and CMake developers' work.
Thanks to https://github.com/transmission/transmission-release-scripts/blob/master/build-windows.ps1 and https://build.transmissionbt.com/job/trunk-win32/arch=x64,label=pepito-win10/lastSuccessfulBuild/consoleText for showing the way.
The Transmission Project itself already provides [https://transmissionbt.com/download/](official builds w/ installer) which I install myself to have, among other things, an entry in the Windows services database for transmission-daemon.
I build my own transmission-daemon for these excellent patches:
You need the following installed:
- Visual Studio 2017 (the Community Edition is sufficient - just make sure its C[++] compiler, MSVC, is installed)
- ActivePerl
- CMake (choose to add CMake to your path)
- Possibly Git for Windows to have tools like
patchpresent - jom (very recommended, esp. for OpenSSL compilation which can take ages on a single core. If you want to use
nmake, use "NMake Makefiles" as the CMake generator & don't add/FSto CFLAGS)
Open a Command Prompt and run the following:
call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\VC\Auxiliary\Build\vcvarsall.bat" amd64
set "TPDIR=C:\3rd-party-msvc64"
set "PATH=%TPDIR%\bin;%PATH%"
set "TPCFLAGS=/nologo /MP /GS /GL /Gy /Oi /Oy /O2 /DWIN32 /D_WINDOWS"
set "TPLDFLAGS=/NOLOGO /DYNAMICBASE /NXCOMPAT /LTCG /INCREMENTAL:NO /OPT:REF /OPT:ICF /machine:x64"
set "CFLAGS=%TPCFLAGS%"
set "LDFLAGS=%TPLDFLAGS%"
mkdir "%TPDIR%" & cd "%TPDIR%"
Download zlib, extract the contents of it into %TPDIR% and cd into the extracted zlib folder.
To build zlib with optimised ASM routines, apply CristiFati's patch:
"%ProgramFiles%\Git\mingw64\bin\curl.exe" -fsSL https://github.com/madler/zlib/pull/376.diff | "%ProgramFiles%\Git\usr\bin\patch.exe" -Np1
(else, set AMD64 below to OFF)
Run the following to build and install zlib into %TPDIR%:
mkdir build & cd build
cmake .. -G "NMake Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="%TPDIR%" -DCMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS="%LDFLAGS%" -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="%CFLAGS%" -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON -DSKIP_INSTALL_FILES=ON -DAMD64=ON
nmake
nmake install/fast
Download OpenSSL, extract the contents of it into %TPDIR% and cd into the extracted OpenSSL folder.
Run the following to build and install OpenSSL into %TPDIR%:
set "CFLAGS=%TPCFLAGS% /I"%TPDIR%\include" /FS"
set "LDFLAGS=%TPLDFLAGS% /DEBUG:FASTLINK"
perl Configure --prefix="%TPDIR%" --openssldir="C:\Program Files\Transmission\ssl" VC-WIN64A-masm zlib-dynamic
REM possibly install dmake - I did
jom
nmake install_sw
set "CFLAGS=%TPCFLAGS%"
set "LDFLAGS=%TPLDFLAGS%"
Download curl, extract the contents of it into %TPDIR% and cd into the extracted curl folder.
Run the following to build and install curl into %TPDIR%:
mkdir build & cd build
cmake .. -G "NMake Makefiles JOM" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="%TPDIR%" -DCMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS="%LDFLAGS%" -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="%LDFLAGS%" -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="%CFLAGS%" -DBUILD_CURL_EXE=OFF -DUSE_WIN32_LDAP=OFF -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF -DCMAKE_USE_OPENSSL=ON -DCURL_WINDOWS_SSPI=OFF -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF -DCURL_DISABLE_DICT=ON -DCURL_DISABLE_GOPHER=ON -DCURL_DISABLE_IMAP=ON -DCURL_DISABLE_SMTP=ON -DCURL_DISABLE_POP3=ON -DCURL_DISABLE_RTSP=ON -DCURL_DISABLE_TFTP=ON -DCURL_DISABLE_TELNET=ON -DCURL_DISABLE_LDAP=ON -DCURL_DISABLE_LDAPS=ON -DENABLE_MANUAL=OFF
jom
nmake install/fast
Download Transmission, be this a tarball from the official website or Git master and cd into the extracted transmission folder.
Run the following to build and install Transmission into %TPDIR%
set "CXXFLAGS=%TPCFLAGS% /GR /EHsc"
mkdir build & cd build
cmake .. -G "NMake Makefiles JOM" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX="%TPDIR%" -DCMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS="%LDFLAGS%" -DCMAKE_STATIC_LINKER_FLAGS="/NOLOGO /LTCG /machine:x64" -DCMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS="%LDFLAGS%" -DCMAKE_C_FLAGS="%CFLAGS%" -DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS="%CXXFLAGS%" -DENABLE_CLI=ON -DENABLE_GTK=OFF -DENABLE_QT=OFF -DENABLE_MAC=OFF -DENABLE_TESTS=OFF -DINSTALL_DOC=OFF
jom
nmake install/fast
You should now have Transmission and the DLL files required to run it in %TPDIR%\bin. Optionally, you can save tr.manifest (itexplicitly marks transmission-daemon as W7+ compatible to avoid folder virtualisation etc.) from this gist to %TPDIR% and then run:
mt -manifest %TPDIR%\tr.manifest -inputresource:"%TPDIR%\bin\transmission-daemon.exe;#1" -outputresource:"%TPDIR%\bin\transmission-daemon.exe;#1"
You can replace the files in your installed version of Transmission with the ones from bin. Don't forget to do the same with %TPDIR%\share\transmission\web.