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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porting libcurl
The basic approach I use when porting libcurl to another OS when the existing configure or cmake build setups are not suitable.
Build
Write a build script/Makefile that builds all C files under lib/. If
possible, use the lib/Makefile.inc that lists all files in Makefile
variables.
In the Makefile, make sure you define what OS you build for: -D[OPERATING SYSTEM], or similar. Perhaps the compiler in use already define a standard
one? Then you might not need to define your own.
Add the new OS
In the lib/curl_config.h header file, in the section for when HAVE_CONFIG_H
is not defined (starting at around line 150), add a new conditional include
in this style:
#ifdef [OPERATING SYSTEM]
# include "config-operatingsystem.h"
#endif
Create lib/config-operatingsystem.h. You might want to start with copying a
another config-* file and then start trimming according to what your
environment supports.
Build it
When you run into compiler warnings or errors, the
lib/config-operatingsystem.h file should be where you should focus your work
and edits.
A recommended approach is to define a lot of the CURL_DISABLE_* defines (see
the CURL-DISABLE document) initially to help narrow down
the initial work as that can save you from having to give attention to areas of
the code that you do not care for in your port.