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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 "unitcheck.h"
#include "urldata.h"
static void checksize(const char *name, size_t size, size_t allowed)
{
if(size > allowed) {
curl_mfprintf(stderr, "BAD: struct %s is %zu bytes, "
"allowed to be %zu: %zu bytes too big\n",
name, size, allowed, size - allowed);
unitfail++;
}
else {
curl_mprintf("FINE: struct %s is %zu bytes, "
"allowed %zu (margin: %zu bytes)\n",
name, size, allowed, allowed - size);
}
}
/* the maximum sizes we allow specific structs to grow to */
#define MAX_CURL_EASY 5370
#define MAX_CONNECTDATA 1300
#define MAX_CURL_MULTI 850
#define MAX_CURL_HTTPPOST 112
#define MAX_CURL_SLIST 16
#define MAX_CURL_KHKEY 24
#define MAX_CURL_HSTSENTRY 40
#define MAX_CURL_INDEX 16
#define MAX_CURL_MIME 96
#define MAX_CURL_MIMEPART 440
#define MAX_CURL_CERTINFO 16
#define MAX_CURL_TLSSESSIONINFO 16
#define MAX_CURL_BLOB 24
#define MAX_CURLMSG 24
#define MAX_CURL_HEADER 48
static CURLcode test_unit3214(const char *arg)
{
UNITTEST_BEGIN_SIMPLE
checksize("Curl_easy", sizeof(struct Curl_easy), MAX_CURL_EASY);
checksize("connectdata", sizeof(struct connectdata), MAX_CONNECTDATA);
checksize("Curl_multi", sizeof(struct Curl_multi), MAX_CURL_MULTI);
/* public structs MUST NOT change (unless controlled), but exact sizes
depend on architecture */
checksize("curl_httppost", sizeof(struct curl_httppost), MAX_CURL_HTTPPOST);
checksize("curl_slist", sizeof(struct curl_slist), MAX_CURL_SLIST);
checksize("curl_khkey", sizeof(struct curl_khkey), MAX_CURL_KHKEY);
checksize("curl_hstsentry", sizeof(struct curl_hstsentry),
MAX_CURL_HSTSENTRY);
checksize("curl_index", sizeof(struct curl_index), MAX_CURL_INDEX);
checksize("curl_mime", sizeof(struct curl_mime), MAX_CURL_MIME);
checksize("curl_mimepart", sizeof(struct curl_mimepart), MAX_CURL_MIMEPART);
checksize("curl_certinfo", sizeof(struct curl_certinfo), MAX_CURL_CERTINFO);
checksize("curl_tlssessioninfo", sizeof(struct curl_tlssessioninfo),
MAX_CURL_TLSSESSIONINFO);
checksize("curl_blob", sizeof(struct curl_blob), MAX_CURL_BLOB);
checksize("CURLMsg", sizeof(struct CURLMsg), MAX_CURLMSG);
checksize("curl_header", sizeof(struct curl_header), MAX_CURL_HEADER);
UNITTEST_END_SIMPLE
}