rustdeskandClaude Fable 5 7c23e1f4b9 fix: texture render lifetime protocol, watchdog fallback, startup probe
Root cause of #15848 (and the long-standing macOS #6296 / Linux #3343
class): raw native texture pointers are shared across the platform
thread, the engine raster thread and the video thread, with teardown
ordered by a 100 ms sleep - or, when moving a tab to a new window, by
nothing at all. A lost race frees the texture while it is still in use:
the raster thread parks on a destroyed lock (frozen/black view, a
never-presented 'transparent' hole, every later session black) and the
video thread hangs while holding session locks (app half-dead until
restart, still reported as Responding).

- unregister textures with compare-and-clear (new session_unregister_*
  FFI): a late clear can no longer wipe a new window's registration
  (#8016) and Rust never keeps pushing into a freed texture; the 100 ms
  sleeps are gone (the plugins now drain in-flight pushes and defer
  object deletion until the raster thread is done)
- guard the async texture create path against destroy racing it (#13596)
- per-display locks: the per-frame plugin call no longer holds
  session-level locks, so a stalled plugin or driver call cannot freeze
  every window's UI thread
- adopt the frame size after 30 consecutive mismatches instead of
  dropping frames forever (silent black screen on a live connection)
- watchdog: frames pushed but never consumed by the engine fall the
  session back to software rendering live, record texture-render-health,
  and flip the effective default off; toggling the option clears the
  record and re-arms validation
- Dart raster-stall monitor records a hung raster thread for the next
  launch (rendering cannot be rescued in-process in that state)
- startup probe: render one frame through a 1x1 texture in the main
  window each launch; failure disables texture rendering before the
  first session goes black, a pass self-heals a stale failure record

Platform defaults are unchanged (macOS off, Win10+ on, Linux on).
Requires flutter_texture_rgba_renderer ad4c37e and
flutter_gpu_texture_renderer 767bb9f (pinned in pubspec).

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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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 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.

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