A liberally licensed VNC server library with a clean interface

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README.md

Neat VNC (Beta)

Introduction

This is a liberally licensed VNC server library that's intended to be fast and neat. Note: This is a beta release, so the interface is not yet stable.

Goals

Speed.
Clean interface.
Interoperability with the Freedesktop.org ecosystem.

Building

Runtime Dependencies

pixman
aml - https://github.com/any1/aml/
zlib
gnutls (optional)
libturbojpeg (optional)

Build Dependencies

meson
pkg-config
libdrm

To build just run:

meson build
ninja -C build

Client Compatibility

Name	ZRLE Encoding	Tight Encoding	Crypto & Auth	SSH Tunneling
bVNC	Yes	?	Yes	Yes
RealVNC	Yes	?	?	?
Remmina	Yes	Yes	?	Yes
TigerVNC	Yes	Yes	Yes	?
TightVNC	No	Yes	?	?
UltraVNC	?	?	?	?