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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
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# Rustls
[Rustls is a TLS backend written in Rust](https://docs.rs/rustls/). curl can
be built to use it as an alternative to OpenSSL or other TLS backends. We use
the [rustls-ffi C bindings](https://github.com/rustls/rustls-ffi). This
version of curl is compatible with `rustls-ffi` v0.15.x.
## Getting rustls-ffi
To build `curl` with `rustls` support you need to have `rustls-ffi` available first.
There are three options for this:
1. Install it from your package manager, if available.
2. Download pre-built binaries.
3. Build it from source.
### Installing rustls-ffi from a package manager
See the [rustls-ffi README] for packaging status. Availability and details for installation
differ between distributions.
Once installed, build `curl` using `--with-rustls`.
% git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curl/curl
% cd curl
% autoreconf -fi
% ./configure --with-rustls
% make
[rustls-ffi README]: https://github.com/rustls/rustls-ffi?tab=readme-ov-file
### Downloading pre-built rustls-ffi binaries
Pre-built binaries are available on the [releases page] on GitHub for releases since 0.15.0.
Download the appropriate archive for your platform and extract it to a directory of your choice
(e.g. `${HOME}/rustls-ffi-built`).
Once downloaded, build `curl` using `--with-rustls` and the path to the extracted binaries.
% git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curl/curl
% cd curl
% autoreconf -fi
% ./configure --with-rustls=${HOME}/rustls-ffi-built
% make
[releases page]: https://github.com/rustls/rustls-ffi/releases
### Building rustls-ffi from source
Building `rustls-ffi` from source requires both a rust compiler, and the [cargo-c] cargo plugin.
To install a Rust compiler, use [rustup] or your package manager to install
the **1.73** or newer toolchain.
To install `cargo-c`, use your [package manager][cargo-c pkg], download
[a pre-built archive][cargo-c prebuilt], or build it from source with `cargo install cargo-c`.
Next, check out, build, and install the appropriate version of `rustls-ffi` using `cargo`:
% git clone --depth 1 --branch v0.15.3 https://github.com/rustls/rustls-ffi
% cd rustls-ffi
% cargo capi install --release --prefix=${HOME}/rustls-ffi-built
Now configure and build `curl` using `--with-rustls`:
% git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/curl/curl
% cd curl
% autoreconf -fi
% ./configure --with-rustls=${HOME}/rustls-ffi-built
% make
See the [rustls-ffi README][cryptography provider] for more information on cryptography providers and
their build/platform requirements.
[cargo-c]: https://github.com/lu-zero/cargo-c
[rustup]: https://rustup.rs/
[cargo-c pkg]: https://github.com/lu-zero/cargo-c?tab=readme-ov-file#availability
[cargo-c prebuilt]: https://github.com/lu-zero/cargo-c/releases
[cryptography provider]: https://github.com/cpu/rustls-ffi?tab=readme-ov-file#cryptography-provider