A review pass over the privileged side, reading src/ipc/drm.rs as a local unprivileged attacker. Two findings, both confirmed by tracing every link. The wire had a deadline in one direction only. Every read has been bounded since the beginning, and next_raw_into even carries the argument for it: a peer that writes a header and then stops pins the other end forever on a readiness wait. The write side had no deadline at all. That asymmetry costs more here, because the parked task is in the root service: a peer that simply stops reading - a kill -STOP on its own --server, a ptrace stop, a frozen cgroup - leaves the send blocked inside the forward loop, so the loop top is never reached again. The credit stall, the per-frame reauthorization and the topology-generation check all live at that loop top, and the connection slot, the worker thread and its DRM context stay pinned until the peer chooses to resume. drm_write_all is the single funnel for both directions, so one deadline there covers every send; the consumer's frame-ack write had the same shape and gets the same bound. And drain_frame_acks looped until WouldBlock, which is a promise the peer gets to keep. It is synchronous on the single-threaded _drm runtime, so a peer that writes a continuous stream instead of one ack byte per frame keeps the receive queue non-empty, never yields, and pins that thread at 100% CPU - starving every other stream on it, which on a multi-monitor client means one connection wedging its own siblings. Capped per call, with an early return once the credit budget is full; anything left stays queued for the next pass. Three comments were describing a mechanism that no longer exists. Two still said a delivered frame drops the whole health entry, which stopped being true when that was narrowed to zeroing the streak; the third, written in that same change, pointed at drm_clear_prefer_cpu, a function deleted several commits earlier. The convert verdict having no clearing site is correct and now says why: it is keyed by connector identity, so a monitor that moves to another GPU arrives under a new key and starts clean. Also, the new regression test held the process-wide health mutex across its assertions, so the one failure it exists to report would have poisoned that mutex and buried itself under unrelated PoisonErrors in its sibling tests. It copies the record out and releases the guard first, as the module's own helper does.
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Yet another remote desktop solution, written in Rust. Works out of the box with no configuration required. You have full control of your data, with no concerns about security. You can use our rendezvous/relay server, set up your own, or write your own rendezvous/relay server.
RustDesk welcomes contribution from everyone. See CONTRIBUTING.md for help getting started.
Dependencies
Desktop versions use Flutter or Sciter (deprecated) for GUI, this tutorial is for Sciter only, since it is easier and more friendly to start. Check out our CI for building Flutter version.
Please download Sciter dynamic library yourself.
Raw Steps to build
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Prepare your Rust development env and C++ build env
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Install vcpkg, and set
VCPKG_ROOTenv variable correctly- Windows: vcpkg install libvpx:x64-windows-static libyuv:x64-windows-static opus:x64-windows-static aom:x64-windows-static
- Linux/macOS: vcpkg install libvpx libyuv opus aom
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run
cargo run
Build
How to Build on Linux
Ubuntu 18 (Debian 10)
sudo apt install -y zip g++ gcc git curl wget nasm yasm libgtk-3-dev clang libxcb-randr0-dev libxdo-dev \
libxfixes-dev libxcb-shape0-dev libxcb-xfixes0-dev libasound2-dev libpulse-dev cmake make \
libclang-dev ninja-build libgstreamer1.0-dev libgstreamer-plugins-base1.0-dev libpam0g-dev
openSUSE Tumbleweed
sudo zypper install gcc-c++ git curl wget nasm yasm gcc gtk3-devel clang libxcb-devel libXfixes-devel cmake alsa-lib-devel gstreamer-devel gstreamer-plugins-base-devel xdotool-devel pam-devel
Fedora 28 (CentOS 8)
sudo yum -y install gcc-c++ git curl wget nasm yasm gcc gtk3-devel clang libxcb-devel libxdo-devel libXfixes-devel pulseaudio-libs-devel cmake alsa-lib-devel gstreamer1-devel gstreamer1-plugins-base-devel pam-devel
Arch (Manjaro)
sudo pacman -Syu --needed unzip git cmake gcc curl wget yasm nasm zip make pkg-config clang gtk3 xdotool libxcb libxfixes alsa-lib pipewire
Install vcpkg
git clone https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg
cd vcpkg
git checkout 2023.04.15
cd ..
vcpkg/bootstrap-vcpkg.sh
export VCPKG_ROOT=$HOME/vcpkg
vcpkg/vcpkg install libvpx libyuv opus aom
Fix libvpx (For Fedora)
cd vcpkg/buildtrees/libvpx/src
cd *
./configure
sed -i 's/CFLAGS+=-I/CFLAGS+=-fPIC -I/g' Makefile
sed -i 's/CXXFLAGS+=-I/CXXFLAGS+=-fPIC -I/g' Makefile
make
cp libvpx.a $HOME/vcpkg/installed/x64-linux/lib/
cd
Build
curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh
source $HOME/.cargo/env
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk
cd rustdesk
mkdir -p target/debug
wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/c-smile/sciter-sdk/master/bin.lnx/x64/libsciter-gtk.so
mv libsciter-gtk.so target/debug
VCPKG_ROOT=$HOME/vcpkg cargo run
How to build with Docker
Begin by cloning the repository and building the Docker container:
git clone https://github.com/rustdesk/rustdesk
cd rustdesk
git submodule update --init --recursive
docker build -t "rustdesk-builder" .
Then, each time you need to build the application, run the following command:
docker run --rm -it -v $PWD:/home/user/rustdesk -v rustdesk-git-cache:/home/user/.cargo/git -v rustdesk-registry-cache:/home/user/.cargo/registry -e PUID="$(id -u)" -e PGID="$(id -g)" rustdesk-builder
Note that the first build may take longer before dependencies are cached, subsequent builds will be faster. Additionally, if you need to specify different arguments to the build command, you may do so at the end of the command in the <OPTIONAL-ARGS> position. For instance, if you wanted to build an optimized release version, you would run the command above followed by --release. The resulting executable will be available in the target folder on your system, and can be run with:
target/debug/rustdesk
Or, if you're running a release executable:
target/release/rustdesk
Please ensure that you run these commands from the root of the RustDesk repository, or the application may not find the required resources. Also note that other cargo subcommands such as install or run are not currently supported via this method as they would install or run the program inside the container instead of the host.
File Structure
- libs/hbb_common: video codec, config, tcp/udp wrapper, protobuf, fs functions for file transfer, and some other utility functions
- libs/scrap: screen capture
- libs/enigo: platform specific keyboard/mouse control
- libs/clipboard: file copy and paste implementation for Windows, Linux, macOS.
- src/ui: obsolete Sciter UI (deprecated)
- src/server: audio/clipboard/input/video services, and network connections
- src/client.rs: start a peer connection
- src/rendezvous_mediator.rs: Communicate with rustdesk-server, wait for remote direct (TCP hole punching) or relayed connection
- src/platform: platform specific code
- flutter: Flutter code for desktop and mobile
- flutter/web/js: JavaScript for Flutter web client

