RustDesk Build

Custom build scripts and patches for RustDesk — an open-source remote desktop application written in Rust. Supports both Linux (Arch/makepkg) and Android (aarch64/armv7/x86_64) targets, with hardware codec (H.264/H.265) support via vcpkg + FFmpeg.

Contents

File	Purpose
PKGBUILD	Arch Linux package build definition
build.sh	Standalone Linux build script (no makepkg required)
build-android.sh	Android APK build script
server/docker-compose.yml	Self-hosted server stack (hbbs + hbbr behind Tailscale)
0000-disable-update-check@rustdesk.patch	Disables the built-in update nag
0002-screen_retriever@rustdesk.patch	Screen retriever compatibility fix
0003-mkvparser.cc-cstdint.patch	C++17 <cstdint> include fix for mkvparser

Current version

RustDesk 1.4.6 — Flutter 3.24.5 · flutter_rust_bridge 1.80.1 · vcpkg 120deac3

Linux build

Prerequisites

pacman -S --needed git cmake gcc curl wget yasm nasm zip make pkg-config clang \
    rust python python-yaml python-toml ninja patchelf \
    ffnvcodec-headers amf-headers

Build with makepkg

makepkg -si

Build without makepkg (standalone)

Downloads all sources automatically:

bash build.sh

The packaged bundle lands in pkg/usr/lib/rustdesk/.

Android build

Requires Android SDK, NDK r27c, JDK 17, Flutter 3.24.5, and Rust (via rustup). Run the Linux build.sh first (or at least its prepare step) so the source tree is in place.

# default aarch64
bash build-android.sh

# specific ABI
bash build-android.sh armv7

# all ABIs
bash build-android.sh all

APKs are written to the script directory.

Self-hosted server

The server/ directory contains a Docker Compose stack that runs the RustDesk relay and rendezvous server behind Tailscale, so no public ports need to be exposed.

cd server
TS_AUTHKEY=<your-tailscale-auth-key> docker compose up -d

Set the RustDesk client's ID/relay server to the Tailscale hostname (default: rustdesk).

Hardware codecs (H.264 / H.265)

The build includes --hwcodec and links vcpkg-built FFmpeg. Install a matching VA-API driver for your hardware:

Hardware	Package
Intel (Broadwell+)	intel-media-driver
Intel (Haswell and older)	libva-intel-driver
AMD / NVIDIA	libva-mesa-driver

Use vainfo (from libva-utils) to verify codec support before expecting hardware acceleration.

License

RustDesk upstream is AGPL-3.0. The build scripts and patches in this repository are provided as-is with no additional restrictions.