License: GPLv3+ Status: production`
Read INSTALL for installation instructions.
metalink is a small program based on libgcrypt, glibmm and some boost libraries. It generates a metalink record on the stdout for every file given on the commandline and using the mirror list from the stdin. It is also able to create a hash list (see the --hashlist option).
Be patient: the implementation isn't optimized and calculating the hashes for 600MB can take up to two minutes on a 1 GHz machine. Also note that it is creating a number of hashes and for GNUnet links it's even symmetrically encrypting blocks of data, all this takes time.
For and example of use:
cd example
./gen.sh
This will, if all goes well, generate a valid itworked.metalink file.
Use metalink --help for more information.
ED2K links don't support files larger then 4GB (4294967295), however metalink only supports ED2K links of no more then 4290048000 bytes (which is a nice whole number of blocks).
Files with a ".metalink" extension will never be hashed.