Here's build commands for debian bullseye (testing track atm)

[twitchyliquid64]

Sharing in case they are useful. Feel free to put them on the readme/faq if you are inclined :)

#!/bin/bash

# Install dependencies
DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive DEBCONF_NONINTERACTIVE_SEEN=true apt-get install -y \
  build-essential make cmake autoconf git ninja-build meson scdoc pkg-config \
  zlib1g-dev libpixman-1-dev libturbojpeg0-dev libgbm-dev \
  libgnutls28-dev \
  libdrm-dev libdrm-common libxkbcommon-dev libxkbcommon-tools libxkbcommon0 \
  wayland-protocols waylandpp-dev wayland-scanner++ libwayland-dev

set -xe

# Build, copied straight from README
git clone https://github.com/any1/wayvnc.git
git clone https://github.com/any1/neatvnc.git
git clone https://github.com/any1/aml.git

mkdir wayvnc/subprojects
cd wayvnc/subprojects
ln -s ../../neatvnc .
ln -s ../../aml .
cd -

mkdir neatvnc/subprojects
cd neatvnc/subprojects
ln -s ../../aml .
cd -

cd wayvnc
meson build
ninja -C build

[any1]

Thanks. Are waylandpp-dev and wayland-scanner++ actually needed? Seems odd given that this is not a C++ project.

Edit: Also cmake seems out of place

[twitchyliquid64]

Hmmm, I'll try without, I basically just skimmed the other distro instructions + the meson file and threw in anything I thought was related. I'll try without those three packages and report back.

[Lyamc]

You're missing libpam0g-dev btw.

Edit: moved previous text to issue #86

[elsiehupp]

To get this running on Ubuntu (20.10) I had to add a few more steps:

$ sudo apt install graphviz \
                   libdrm-dev \
                   libpam0g-dev \
                   libturbojpeg-dev \
                   libxcb-xkb-dev \
                   scdoc \
                   valgrind

$ sudo dpkg --purge --force-all libxkbcommon0
$ sudo dpkg --purge --force-all libxkbcommon0:i386
$ wget http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libx/libxkbcommon/libxkbcommon0_1.0.3-2_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg --install libxkbcommon0_1.0.3-2_amd64.deb

$ sudo dpkg --purge --force-all libxkbcommon-dev
$ sudo dpkg --purge --force-all libxkbcommon-dev:i386
$ wget http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libx/libxkbcommon/libxkbcommon-dev_1.0.3-2_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg --install libxkbcommon-dev_1.0.3-2_amd64.deb

$ sudo dpkg --purge --force-all libsdl2-2.0-0:i386
$ wget http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libs/libsdl2/libsdl2-2.0-0_2.0.14+dfsg2-3_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg --install libsdl2-2.0-0_2.0.14+dfsg2-3_amd64.deb

$ sudo dpkg --purge --force-all libsdl2-dev:i386
$ wget http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libs/libsdl2/libsdl2-dev_2.0.14+dfsg2-3_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg --install libsdl2-dev_2.0.14+dfsg2-3_amd64.deb

$ sudo dpkg --purge --force-all libxkbcommon-x11-0
$ wget http://ftp.br.debian.org/debian/pool/main/libx/libxkbcommon/libxkbcommon-x11-0_1.0.3-2_amd64.deb
$ sudo dpkg --install libxkbcommon-x11-0_1.0.3-2_amd64.deb

$ sudo apt --fix-broken install
$ sudo apt autoremove

$ cd <path_to_cloned_directory>/aml
$ meson build
$ sudo ninja -C build install

$ cd <path_to_cloned_directory>/neatvnc
$ meson build
$ sudo ninja -C build install

(These steps can probably be further simplified.)

To summarize, the issues were:

1. Ubuntu seems to have slightly different names for certain apt packages.
2. Ubuntu ships with a comedically outdated version of xkbcommon, so this version of the instructions manually installs the Debian version.
3. The wayvnc install script doesn't install libaml.so.0 or libneatvnc.so.0 properly (see Meson/Ninja incorrectly installing libaml.so.0 libneatvnc.so.0 on Ubuntu #86), so you have to install them individually.

Now the issue I'm running into is that my graphics drivers don't seem to support Wayland, though it sounds like this will be fixed with NVIDIA's upcoming 470 driver release. (It seems that NVIDIA has pulled the 470 beta from distribution, though, due to the fact that it unlocked Ethereum mining on Windows.) My guess as to why I had previously gotten Wayland running on my computer is that I may have been using the open-source Nouveau driver, which comes with its own set of problems.

[Lyamc]

I’ll test this out on 21.04

[elsiehupp]

FWIW I don't know if there are any other problems caused by manually upgrading xkbcommon. Ideally the install script would be able to use a version other than the one included with the operating system. (I don't know how to do this off the top of my head.)

[elsiehupp]

Another approach might be including xkbcommon as a subproject, like so:

$ git clone https://github.com/xkbcommon/libxkbcommon.git
$ cd wayvnc/subprojects
$ ln -s ../../libxkbcommon .
$ cd -

Then replacing the following line in meson.build:

wayvnc/meson.build

Line 47 in 7a60ab7

xkbcommon = dependency('xkbcommon', version: '>=1.0.0')

with:

xkbcommon = subproject('libxkbcommon', required: true)

This would work around the problem of Ubuntu (and possibly other distributions) not including recent enough versions of xkbcommon.