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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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#include "curlx/timediff.h"
/*
* Converts number of milliseconds into a timeval structure.
*
* Return values:
* NULL IF tv is NULL or ms < 0 (eg. no timeout -> blocking select)
* tv with 0 in both fields IF ms == 0 (eg. 0ms timeout -> polling select)
* tv with converted fields IF ms > 0 (eg. >0ms timeout -> waiting select)
*/
struct timeval *curlx_mstotv(struct timeval *tv, timediff_t ms)
{
if(!tv)
return NULL;
if(ms < 0)
return NULL;
if(ms > 0) {
timediff_t tv_sec = ms / 1000;
timediff_t tv_usec = (ms % 1000) * 1000; /* max=999000 */
#ifdef HAVE_SUSECONDS_T
#if TIMEDIFF_T_MAX > TIME_T_MAX
/* tv_sec overflow check in case time_t is signed */
if(tv_sec > TIME_T_MAX)
tv_sec = TIME_T_MAX;
#endif
tv->tv_sec = (time_t)tv_sec;
tv->tv_usec = (suseconds_t)tv_usec;
#elif defined(_WIN32) /* maybe also others in the future */
#if TIMEDIFF_T_MAX > LONG_MAX
/* tv_sec overflow check on Windows there we know it is long */
if(tv_sec > LONG_MAX)
tv_sec = LONG_MAX;
#endif
tv->tv_sec = (long)tv_sec;
tv->tv_usec = (long)tv_usec;
#else
#if TIMEDIFF_T_MAX > INT_MAX
/* tv_sec overflow check in case time_t is signed */
if(tv_sec > INT_MAX)
tv_sec = INT_MAX;
#endif
tv->tv_sec = (int)tv_sec;
tv->tv_usec = (int)tv_usec;
#endif
}
else {
tv->tv_sec = 0;
tv->tv_usec = 0;
}
return tv;
}
/*
* Converts a timeval structure into number of milliseconds.
*/
timediff_t curlx_tvtoms(struct timeval *tv)
{
return (tv->tv_sec * 1000) + (timediff_t)(tv->tv_usec / 1000);
}