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Alexander J. Semenuk 5d5e35fb9b fix: Windows toolchain compatibility (curl 8.21 re-vendor, endless reconfigure loop) (#4355)
## Problem

Windows builds break with a current local toolchain (Scoop LLVM 22.1.8,
CMake 4.4.0, VS 2026), in two independent ways:

1. The build stops at curl's deliberate guard: `#error "no non-blocking
method was found/used/set"` in `third-party/curl/lib/nonblock.c`.
2. From the second configure onward, `cmake --build` re-runs CMake in an
endless loop (observed 42 consecutive reconfigure cycles in a single
build). Likely the same mechanism behind the "endlessly building" VS
2026 note in `docs/setup/dev/vs.md`.

## Root cause

1. `third-party/curl/CMake/CurlTests.c` passes `int *` to
`ioctlsocket()`, whose third parameter is `u_long *`. Clang 22 promotes
`-Wincompatible-pointer-types` to a hard error in C, so the
`HAVE_IOCTLSOCKET_FIONBIO` try_compile silently fails and
`curl_config.h` never defines it. Upstream CI does not see this because
the windows-2022 runner image ships an older LLVM. GCC 14 promotes the
same warning to a hard error, which is very likely the `CurlTests.c.obj`
failure reported from MSYS2 in open-goal/jak-project#3551. Upstream curl
hit the identical problem with GCC 14 and fixed the probe in curl 8.8.0
(curl/curl#13578).
2. The root CMakeLists copies the build tree's `compile_commands.json`
into `<src>/build/` for clangd using `configure_file()`, which registers
its input as a configure dependency. CMake rewrites
`compile_commands.json` late in every generation, after
`CTestTestfile.cmake` and `cmake_install.cmake` (outputs of the same
Ninja regen rule), so once the dependency is registered the rule is
deterministically dirty and every `ninja` invocation re-runs CMake. A
pristine first configure is safe (the file does not exist yet, so the
`if(EXISTS ...)` guard skips the copy), which is why the loop looks
machine- or IDE-specific.

## Fix

1. Per review, re-vendor `third-party/curl` at the `curl-8_21_0` tag
(previously `curl-8_3_0`), which carries the upstream probe fix plus two
years of upstream development; `vendor.yaml` updated to match.
Adjustments the version jump forced:
- curl 8.15 removed the native macOS Secure Transport backend
(`CURL_USE_SECTRANSP`), so macOS now builds curl against OpenSSL like
Linux. The two macOS workflows install Homebrew `openssl@3` and export
`OPENSSL_ROOT_DIR` (keg-only), and the macOS setup docs gained the same
two lines.
- `CURL_BROTLI` / `CURL_ZSTD` switched to AUTO-detection in curl 8.10;
pinned OFF to keep the previous no-compression behavior and avoid
silently linking whatever the CI images happen to have.
- curl's new top-level `BUILD_EXAMPLES` cache option (default ON) leaked
into discord-rpc's identically named option and broke configure at a
nonexistent `examples/send-presence` directory; pinned OFF ahead of the
third-party subdirectories.

The diff is dominated by the mechanical tag-tree swap under
`third-party/curl` (linguist-vendored, collapsed in review). The
hand-written changes are `CMakeLists.txt`, the two macOS workflows,
`docs/setup/system/macos.md`, and `vendor.yaml`.
2. Swap `configure_file()` for `file(COPY ...)`: the same clangd copy
with no configure dependency registered. (`file(COPY_FILE ...
ONLY_IF_DIFFERENT)` would be cleaner still but requires CMake 3.21,
above the declared `cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.10)`.)

## Test plan

- [x] Fresh `cmake --preset Release-windows-clang` (LLVM 22, no cache
seeding) completes and logs `Enabled SSL backends: Schannel`; the
FIONBIO probe passes without the previous `#error`
- [x] Full Windows Release build from scratch in the branch worktree
(all 1422 targets)
- [x] goalc-test suite: 1509 passed, 0 failed
- [x] Second consecutive configure with `compile_commands.json` present:
the regen rule in `build.ninja` has no `compile_commands.json` input;
`<src>/build/compile_commands.json` is still refreshed for clangd
- [x] Repeated `ninja` invocations after a full build no longer re-run
CMake
- [x] macOS Intel and ARM CI green (first exercise of the OpenSSL
backend switch)

---

I work off a self-hosted forge, so this GitHub account is quiet; the
configure logs and ninja dirty-node traces from the investigation are
available if anyone wants the raw data.

(AI-assisted)
2026-07-27 19:19:18 -04:00

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<!--
Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>, et al.
SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
-->
# bufref
This is an internal module for handling buffer references. A referenced
buffer is associated with its destructor function that is implicitly called
when the reference is invalidated. Once referenced, a buffer cannot be
reallocated.
A data length is stored within the reference for binary data handling
purposes; it is not used by the bufref API.
The `struct bufref` is used to hold data referencing a buffer. The members of
that structure **MUST NOT** be accessed or modified without using the dedicated
bufref API.
## `init`
```c
void Curl_bufref_init(struct bufref *br);
```
Initializes a `bufref` structure. This function **MUST** be called before any
other operation is performed on the structure.
Upon completion, the referenced buffer is `NULL` and length is zero.
This function may also be called to bypass referenced buffer destruction while
invalidating the current reference.
## `free`
```c
void Curl_bufref_free(struct bufref *br);
```
Destroys the previously referenced buffer using its destructor and
reinitializes the structure for a possible subsequent reuse.
## `set`
```c
void Curl_bufref_set(struct bufref *br, const void *buffer, size_t length,
void (*destructor)(void *));
```
Releases the previously referenced buffer, then assigns the new `buffer` to
the structure, associated with its `destructor` function. The latter can be
specified as `NULL`: this is the case when the referenced buffer is static.
if `buffer` is NULL, `length` must be zero.
## `memdup0`
```c
CURLcode Curl_bufref_memdup0(struct bufref *br, const void *data,
size_t length);
```
Releases the previously referenced buffer, then duplicates the `length`-byte
`data` into a buffer allocated via `malloc()` and references the latter
associated with destructor `curl_free()`.
An additional trailing byte is allocated and set to zero as a possible string
null-terminator; it is not counted in the stored length.
Returns `CURLE_OK` if successful, else `CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY`.
## `ptr`
```c
const char *Curl_bufref_ptr(const struct bufref *br);
```
Returns a `const char *` to the referenced buffer.
## `uptr`
```c
const unsigned char *Curl_bufref_uptr(const struct bufref *br);
```
Returns a `const unsigned char *` to the referenced buffer.
## `len`
```c
size_t Curl_bufref_len(const struct bufref *br);
```
Returns the stored length of the referenced buffer.
## `dup`
```c
char *Curl_bufref_dup(const struct bufref *br);
```
Returns a strdup() version of the buffer. Note that this assumes that the
bufref is null-terminated.