#32 Missing files in modular tree

[Robin Hill]

I'm trying to compile the new modular tree and there
seems to be a few files missing:

src/proto/xcliplistproto/xcliplistproto.pc.in
src/xserver/hw/vnc/d3des.h
src/xserver/hw/vnc/vncauth.c

I also notice that the xserver checkout includes all
the git metadata - should this be happening?

[Robin Hill]

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I made a modified copy of src/proto/vncproto/vncproto.pc.in
for the xcliplistproto, and copied the two missing files
from src/xserver/hw/dmx/vnc in order to proceed.

The main Xvnc binary now compiles okay, but the vnc module
is skipped. I had to add vnc to the SUBDIRS and
DIST_SUBDIRS in src/xserver/hw/xfree86/Makefile.am in order
to build this module.

[Robin Hill]

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Found another problem with the module - I needed to add -
DXFree86LOADER to the Makefile.am in src/xserver/hw/xfree86/
vnc, otherwise I got errors about an invalid module.

The module now loads into X okay but, unfortunately, still
doesn't seem to be working - I can connect okay but the
connection is immediately closed without any obvious errors.

[Robin Hill]

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Found the problem with the module - it's not being linked
against libjpeg, so enabling jpeg compression in the client
causes a crash on connection. Adding -ljpeg to the LDFLAGS
in the Makefile fixes this one.

[Robin Hill]

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Unfortunately, using a password with the libvnc.so modules
causes the server to crash. I had to copy the d3des.[ch]
and vncauth.c files from src/xserver/hw/vnc to src/xserver/
hw/xfree86/vnc and add these into the Makefile.am. It also
needed -lz and -lcrypt adding to the LDFLAGS. All seems to
be working now and I can't see any obvious unresolved
symbols remaining.

Does the libvnc.so module make any use of the VncExt and
Xcliplist libraries that are installed? I can't see
anywhere that these are linked/loaded.

[Kris Van Hees]

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I see the same behaviour when using the pre-compiled version available for download. Client connects and immediately disconnects. This is on XFree86 4.6.0. The log merely shows:

(II) 23/02/2007 11:16:29 Got VNC connection from client 127.0.0.1
(II) 23/02/2007 11:16:34 Client 127.0.0.1 gone
(II) 23/02/2007 11:16:34 Statistics:
(II) 23/02/2007 11:16:34 framebuffer updates 0, rectangles 0, bytes 0

I tried getting the code to compile in the XFree86 4.6.0 tree, but so far that has not been successful. Still working on that so I can debug this connection issue. Hopefully (in the meantime) someone else may have an answer/solution?