Transmission daemon for Windows

This project is about building Transmission torrent daemon for Windows as a single binary without dependencies. For Android version of this project see: https://github.com/depler/transmission-android.

Current source code components:

• Transmission (https://github.com/transmission/transmission): 4.0.3
• WolfSSL (https://github.com/wolfSSL/wolfssl): 5.6.0
• Curl (https://github.com/curl/curl): 8.0.1
• Event2 (https://github.com/libevent/libevent): 2.1.12
• Zlib (https://github.com/madler/zlib): 1.2.13

Releases contains additional binaries (besides transmission itself):

• Transmissionic Web UI (https://github.com/6c65726f79/Transmissionic): 1.8.0
• Transmission Remote GUI (https://github.com/transmission-remote-gui/transgui): 5.18.0

Binary dependencies: none. Compatible with Windows Vista and newer.

Build

Clone current repository and build transmission.sln file with Visual Studio 2022 or newer. No, additional black magic is not required. Yes, just that simple.

Branch master contains latest changes from original transmission code (version 4), for old version see branch v3.

Config

Pay attention to file [Transmission]\daemon\settings.json. Probably you want/should change following settings: download-dir, incomplete-dir. Some default values:

• torrents folder path is C:\Torrents\
• web UI url is http://localhost:9091/transmission/web/

Run

Download latest Transmission.zip from releases, unpack it somewhere and run one of the following with administrator rights:

• run_foreground.bat: run transmission in console mode (without service installation)
• daemon_create.bat: create windows service for transmission
• daemon_start.bat: start windows service for transmission
• daemon_stop.bat: stop windows service for transmission
• daemon_delete.bat: delete windows service for transmission
• desktop_shortcut.bat: create desktop shortcut for transgui.exe