rustdesk d6a51074e5 tcp: repeat the punch across the controller's dial window
The single punch leaves before hbbs has told the controller where to dial, so
it is never in flight at the same time as the controller's SYN: it opens our
NAT, meets nothing, and a gateway that answers it with RST takes the mapping
down with it, leaving the listener waiting on a hole that no longer exists.

Punch again while the controller may still be dialing, and race those punches
against the accept. That is two ways in where there was one: the mapping is
rebuilt if a RST took it, and once the controller sits in SYN_SENT one of the
punches meets its SYN and completes as a simultaneous open - which a punch sent
before the controller had been told anything never could.

There is no instant to aim at. `Client::connect` gives the controller's dial
CONNECT_TIMEOUT outright whenever neither side is symmetric, and that is the
only case reaching a TCP punch at all, so the window is nothing this side can
name in advance. The repeats therefore run for exactly as long as the accept is
still willing to take a connection through the hole, and back off instead:
dense while the controller is most likely to be dialing, sparse afterwards,
which is `punch_udp`'s shape for the same reason. The deadline decides whether
another punch starts, never how long one already in flight may take - cutting
that one short is the mid-handshake reset its timeout exists to avoid.

Only the accept races the punch, never `accept_connection`: that one does not
return until the session it goes on to run has ended, so racing it would tear a
live session down.

Whichever arrives first is the one connection the request produces. `meta`
carries the control permissions hbbs granted for this one controller, so
serving the loser as well would hand them to a second peer - and nothing about
a connection tells the two apart before `create_tcp_connection` has spoken to
it, least of all its address, which a carrier NAT shares between subscribers.
The address is checked all the same, to keep a stray out of the race at all,
but what holds the invariant is that there is no second serve.

The accept loops rather than taking a single connection, so that neither a
stray nor a transient accept error spends the window the controller still has
to arrive in.

libp2p's DCUtR reaches the same place by having both peers dial at one instant
agreed over the relay. Nothing we send reaches the controller directly, so we
cover its dial window rather than name an instant inside it.

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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 the Flutter version.

Please download Sciter dynamic library yourself.

Windows | Linux | macOS

Raw Steps to build

  • Prepare your Rust development env and C++ build env

  • Install vcpkg, and set VCPKG_ROOT env 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
  • 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

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

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

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.

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