Alexander J. Semenuk
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## 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)
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--range
Retrieve a byte range (i.e. a partial document) from an HTTP/1.1, FTP or SFTP server or a local FILE. Ranges can be specified in a number of ways.
0-499
specifies the first 500 bytes
500-999
specifies the second 500 bytes
-500
specifies the last 500 bytes
9500-
specifies the bytes from offset 9500 and forward
0-0,-1
specifies the first and last byte only(*)(HTTP)
100-199,500-599
specifies two separate 100-byte ranges(*) (HTTP)
(*) = NOTE that if specifying multiple ranges and the server supports it then it replies with a multiple part response that curl returns as-is. It contains meta information in addition to the requested bytes. Parsing or otherwise transforming this response is the responsibility of the caller.
Only digit characters (0-9) are valid in the 'start' and 'stop' fields of the 'start-stop' range syntax. If a non-digit character is given in the range, the server's response is unspecified, depending on the server's configuration.
Many HTTP/1.1 servers do not have this feature enabled, so that when you attempt to get a range, curl instead gets the whole document.
FTP and SFTP range downloads only support the simple 'start-stop' syntax (optionally with one of the numbers omitted). FTP use depends on the extended FTP command SIZE.
When using this option for HTTP uploads using POST or PUT, functionality is not guaranteed. The HTTP protocol has no standard interoperable resume upload and curl uses a set of headers for this purpose that once proved working for some servers and have been left for those who find that useful.
This command line option is mutually exclusive with --continue-at: you can only use one of them for a single transfer.