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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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Code defines to disable features and protocols

CURL_DISABLE_ALTSVC

Disable support for Alt-Svc: HTTP headers.

CURL_DISABLE_BINDLOCAL

Disable support for binding the local end of connections.

CURL_DISABLE_COOKIES

Disable support for HTTP cookies.

CURL_DISABLE_BASIC_AUTH

Disable support for the Basic authentication methods.

CURL_DISABLE_BEARER_AUTH

Disable support for the Bearer authentication methods.

CURL_DISABLE_DIGEST_AUTH

Disable support for the Digest authentication methods.

CURL_DISABLE_KERBEROS_AUTH

Disable support for the Kerberos authentication methods.

CURL_DISABLE_NEGOTIATE_AUTH

Disable support for the negotiate authentication methods.

CURL_DISABLE_AWS

Disable aws-sigv4 support.

Disable unsafe CA bundle search in PATH on Windows.

CURL_DISABLE_DICT

Disable the DICT protocol

CURL_DISABLE_DOH

Disable DNS-over-HTTPS

CURL_DISABLE_FILE

Disable the FILE protocol

CURL_DISABLE_FORM_API

Disable the form API

CURL_DISABLE_FTP

Disable the FTP (and FTPS) protocol

CURL_DISABLE_GETOPTIONS

Disable the curl_easy_options() API calls that lets users get information about existing options to curl_easy_setopt().

CURL_DISABLE_GOPHER

Disable the GOPHER protocol.

CURL_DISABLE_HEADERS_API

Disable the HTTP header API.

CURL_DISABLE_HSTS

Disable the HTTP Strict Transport Security support.

CURL_DISABLE_HTTP

Disable the HTTP(S) protocols. Note that this then also disable HTTP proxy support.

CURL_DISABLE_HTTP_AUTH

Disable support for all HTTP authentication methods.

CURL_DISABLE_IMAP

Disable the IMAP(S) protocols.

CURL_DISABLE_LDAP

Disable the LDAP(S) protocols.

CURL_DISABLE_LDAPS

Disable the LDAPS protocol.

CURL_DISABLE_LIBCURL_OPTION

Disable the --libcurl option from the curl tool.

CURL_DISABLE_MIME

Disable MIME support.

CURL_DISABLE_MQTT

Disable MQTT support.

CURL_DISABLE_NETRC

Disable the netrc parser.

CURL_DISABLE_OPENSSL_AUTO_LOAD_CONFIG

Disable the auto load config support in the OpenSSL backend.

CURL_DISABLE_PARSEDATE

Disable date parsing

CURL_DISABLE_POP3

Disable the POP3 protocol

CURL_DISABLE_PROGRESS_METER

Disable the built-in progress meter

CURL_DISABLE_PROXY

Disable support for proxies

CURL_DISABLE_IPFS

Disable the IPFS/IPNS protocols. This affects the curl tool only, where IPFS/IPNS protocol support is implemented.

CURL_DISABLE_RTSP

Disable the RTSP protocol.

CURL_DISABLE_SHA512_256

Disable the SHA-512/256 hash algorithm.

CURL_DISABLE_SHUFFLE_DNS

Disable the shuffle DNS feature

CURL_ENABLE_SMB

Enable the SMB(S) protocols

CURL_DISABLE_SMTP

Disable the SMTP(S) protocols

CURL_DISABLE_SOCKETPAIR

Disable the use of socketpair() internally to allow waking up and canceling curl_multi_poll().

CURL_DISABLE_TELNET

Disable the TELNET protocol

CURL_DISABLE_TFTP

Disable the TFTP protocol

CURL_DISABLE_TYPECHECK

Disable curl_easy_setopt()/curl_easy_getinfo() type checking.

Useful to improve build performance for the tests/libtest test tool.

CURL_DISABLE_VERBOSE_STRINGS

Disable verbose strings and error messages.

CURL_DISABLE_WEBSOCKETS

Disable the WebSocket protocols.