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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

CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION - progress meter callback

SYNOPSIS

#include <curl/curl.h>

int progress_callback(void *clientp,
                      double dltotal,
                      double dlnow,
                      double ultotal,
                      double ulnow);

CURLcode curl_easy_setopt(CURL *handle, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION,
                          progress_callback);

DESCRIPTION

Pass a pointer to your callback function, which should match the prototype shown above.

This option is deprecated and we encourage users to use the newer CURLOPT_XFERINFOFUNCTION(3) instead, if you can.

This function gets called by libcurl instead of its internal equivalent with a frequent interval. While data is being transferred it is invoked frequently, and during slow periods like when nothing is being transferred it can slow down to about one call per second.

clientp is the pointer set with CURLOPT_PROGRESSDATA(3), it is not used by libcurl but is only passed along from the application to the callback.

The callback gets told how much data libcurl is about to transfer and has transferred, in number of bytes. dltotal is the total number of bytes libcurl expects to download in this transfer. dlnow is the number of bytes downloaded so far. ultotal is the total number of bytes libcurl expects to upload in this transfer. ulnow is the number of bytes uploaded so far.

Unknown/unused argument values passed to the callback are be set to zero (like if you only download data, the upload size remains 0). Many times the callback is called one or more times first, before it knows the data sizes so a program must be made to handle that.

Return zero from the callback if everything is fine.

If your callback function returns CURL_PROGRESSFUNC_CONTINUE it causes libcurl to continue executing the default progress function.

Return 1 from this callback to make libcurl abort the transfer and return CURLE_ABORTED_BY_CALLBACK.

If you transfer data with the multi interface, this function is not called during periods of idleness unless you call the appropriate libcurl function that performs transfers.

CURLOPT_NOPROGRESS(3) must be set to 0 to make this function actually get called.

DEFAULT

NULL. libcurl has an internal progress meter. That is rarely wanted by users.

%PROTOCOLS%

EXAMPLE

struct progress {
  char *private;
  size_t size;
};

static int progress_callback(void *clientp,
                             double dltotal,
                             double dlnow,
                             double ultotal,
                             double ulnow)
{
  struct progress *memory = clientp;
  printf("private: %p\n", memory->private);

  /* use the values */

  return 0; /* all is good */
}

int main(void)
{
  struct progress data;

  CURL *curl = curl_easy_init();
  if(curl) {
    CURLcode result;
    /* pass struct to callback */
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROGRESSDATA, &data);
    curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_PROGRESSFUNCTION, progress_callback);

    result = curl_easy_perform(curl);
    curl_easy_cleanup(curl);
  }
}

DEPRECATED

Deprecated since 7.32.0.

%AVAILABILITY%

RETURN VALUE

curl_easy_setopt(3) returns a CURLcode indicating success or error.

CURLE_OK (0) means everything was OK, non-zero means an error occurred, see libcurl-errors(3).