[ANN] glibvnc - Go wrapper for C library libvnc

[Luke Mauldin]

Announcing  glibvnc, a Go wrapper for C library libvnc: https://github.com/LukeMauldin/glibvnc The package exposes both the server and client functionality of libvnc.

gvncrecord: https://github.com/LukeMauldin/gvncrecord is an example of a package using glibvnc.  gvncrecord connects to a VNC server and sends the result through FFMPEG to write an mp4 file.

I would greatly appreciate code reviews of both packages and I welcome all of your feedback.  Thank you,

Luke Mauldin

[Hǎiliàng]

Would you consider automatically generate the wrapper using https://github.com/hailiang/cwrap ?

Hǎiliàng

[Luke Mauldin]

Yes, I actually used cwrap to generate the initial files.  However, as mentioned on the cwrap website there can be problems converting from Go structs to C structs and vice versa (due to padding, alignment, etc...) and the structs rfbServer and rfbClient were very large C structs so I thought there would be issues if I tried to use cwrap.  In addition, I wanted to change the methods to have the methods attached to the rfbServer and rfbClient rather than accepting them as the first parameter.

Luke

[Hailiang Wang]

cwrap is able to attach functions to the first parameter as method as
long as its a struct pointer.

For the struct, if it is allocated by c, and its members are not
accessed directly, there could be no issues.

Hǎiliàng