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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)

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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.

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NAME

mk-ca-bundle - convert Mozilla's certificate bundle to PEM format

SYNOPSIS

mk-ca-bundle [options] [output]

DESCRIPTION

This tool downloads the certdata.txt file from Mozilla's source tree over HTTPS, then parses it and extracts the included certificates into PEM format. By default, only CA root certificates trusted to issue SSL server authentication certificates are extracted. These are then processed with the OpenSSL command line tool to produce the final ca-bundle output file.

The default output name is ca-bundle.crt. By setting it to '-' (a single dash) you get the output sent to STDOUT instead of a file.

The PEM format this scripts uses for output makes the result readily available for use by OpenSSL or GnuTLS powered applications, such as curl and others.

OPTIONS

The following options are supported:

-b

backup an existing version of output

-d [name]

specify which Mozilla tree to pull certdata.txt from (or a custom URL). Valid names are: aurora, beta, central, Mozilla, nss, release (default). They are shortcuts for which source tree to get the certificate data from.

-f

force rebuild even if certdata.txt is current (Added in version 1.17)

-i

print version info about used modules

-k

Allow insecure data transfer. By default (since 1.27) this command fails if the HTTPS transfer fails. This overrides that decision (and opens for man-in-the-middle attacks).

-l

print license info about certdata.txt

-m

(Added in 1.26) Include meta data comments in the output. The meta data is specific information about each certificate that is stored in the original file as comments and using this option makes those comments get passed on to the output file. The meta data is not parsed in any way by mk-ca-bundle.

-n

Do not download certdata.txt - use the existing.

-p [purposes]:[levels]

list of Mozilla trust purposes and levels for certificates to include in output. Takes the form of a comma separated list of purposes, a colon, and a comma separated list of levels. The default is to include all certificates trusted to issue SSL Server certificates (SERVER_AUTH:TRUSTED_DELEGATOR).

Valid purposes are: ALL, DIGITAL_SIGNATURE, NON_REPUDIATION, KEY_ENCIPHERMENT, DATA_ENCIPHERMENT, KEY_AGREEMENT, KEY_CERT_SIGN, CRL_SIGN, SERVER_AUTH (default), CLIENT_AUTH, CODE_SIGNING, EMAIL_PROTECTION, IPSEC_END_SYSTEM, IPSEC_TUNNEL, IPSEC_USER, TIME_STAMPING, STEP_UP_APPROVED

Valid trust levels are: ALL, TRUSTED_DELEGATOR (default), NOT_TRUSTED, MUST_VERIFY_TRUST, TRUSTED

-q

be really quiet (no progress output at all)

-t

include plain text listing of certificates

-s [algorithms]

A comma separated list of signature algorithms with which to hash/fingerprint each certificate and output when run in plain text mode.

Valid algorithms are: ALL, NONE, MD5 (default), SHA1, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512

-u

unlink (remove) certdata.txt after processing

-v

be verbose and print out processed certificate authorities

EXIT STATUS

Returns 0 on success. Returns 1 if it fails to download data.

FILE FORMAT

The file format used by Mozilla for this trust information is documented here.