Verify if lines are not longer than 192 characters. Also verify if lines
have less than 79 repeat spaces (and fix one fallout).
To improve readability by avoiding long lines and to prevent adding
overly long lines with text that may go unnoticed in an editor or diff
viewer.
In addition to pre-existing line length limits: 79 for C, 132 for CMake
sources.
Also:
- spacecheck: fix/harden allowlist regexes.
- spacecheck: tidy-up quotes and simplify escaping.
- spacecheck: allow folding strings with repeat spaces.
- GHA: fix a suppressed shellcheck warning.
- GHA/macos: simplify by dropping brew bundle.
- test1119.pl: precompile a regex.
- FAQ.md: delete very long link to a Windows 7/2008 support article
that's lost it relevance.
Closes#21087
- librtmp has no test cases, makes no proper releases and has not had a
single commit within the last year
- librtmp parses the URL itself and requires non-compliant URLs for this
- we have no RTMP tests
- RTMP was used by 2.2% of curl users (self-identified in the 2025
survey)
Closes#20673
To aid debugging cases when dependency detection acts unexpectedly.
Sprung from spending days trying to figure out behavior of ngtcp2 crypto
modules and their dependencies.
You can enable by setting env `CURL_TRACE_PKG_CONFIG` to a non-empty
value. When enabled, details are logged for both successful and
unsuccessful detections. Logging of unsuccessful ones is automatically
enabled when `CURL_CI` env is set, which is the case for all CI jobs.
It works by asking for `--debug` output and grepping for lines that seem
useful for this purpose. Output is different for classic pkg-config and
pkgconf, and may depending on tool version. Also append `--print-errors`
output if any.
Examples (with pkgconf):
Fail, before:
```
checking for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl options with pkg-config... no
configure: error: --with-ngtcp2 was specified but could not find ngtcp2_crypto_boringssl pkg-config file.
```
Fail, after:
```
checking for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl options with pkg-config... no
configure: pkg-config --exists libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl trace:
---- begin
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp3/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl
trying path: /home/runner/ngtcp2-boringssl/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp3/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2
trying path: /home/runner/ngtcp2-boringssl/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp3/build/lib/pkgconfig for openssl
trying path: /home/runner/ngtcp2-boringssl/build/lib/pkgconfig for openssl
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp2/build/lib/pkgconfig for openssl
==== error:
Package openssl was not found in the pkg-config search path.
Perhaps you should add the directory containing `openssl.pc'
to the PKG_CONFIG_PATH environment variable
Package 'openssl', required by 'libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl', not found
---- end
configure: error: --with-ngtcp2 was specified but could not find ngtcp2_crypto_boringssl pkg-config file.
```
Success, after:
```
checking for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl options with pkg-config... found
configure: pkg-config --exists libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl trace:
---- begin
trying path: /home/runner/awslc/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp3/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp2/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl
trying path: /home/runner/ngtcp2/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2_crypto_boringssl
trying path: /home/runner/awslc/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp3/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2
trying path: /home/runner/nghttp2/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2
trying path: /home/runner/ngtcp2/build/lib/pkgconfig for libngtcp2
trying path: /home/runner/awslc/build/lib/pkgconfig for openssl
trying path: /home/runner/awslc/build/lib/pkgconfig for libssl
trying path: /home/runner/awslc/build/lib/pkgconfig for libcrypto
---- end
```
More examples:
https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/20926#issuecomment-4064259935
If there is an externally enablable, built-in feature like this in
classic pkg-config or pkgconf, I could not find it.
Also:
- GHA/http3-linux: set `CURL_TRACE_PKG_CONFIG` to log detection details.
H3 builds are prone to hard-to-debug dependency issues.
Ref: #20920
Follow-up to 3c64ffaff4#18415#18188
Follow-up to 99500660af#18028#18022
Cherry-picked from #20926Closes#20931
It's mostly a filler word. I've read through each use of it in the code
base and did minor rephrasings when "simply" carried some meaning. The
overwhelming majority of cases, removing it improved the text
significantly. Inspired by #20793.
Closes#20822
- replaced double spaces with single space where applicable
- replaced "favourite" with "favorite"
- added language identifiers to code blocks in markdown files
- added extra line after code blocks and after headings in markdown
files
Cloes #20748
For reducing binary size. Also to remove (or greatly mitigate)
the side-effect of using "unity" builds. Similar to `-Wl,--gc-sections`
on non-Apple platforms.
For example with curl-for-win builds, macOS arm+intel:
curl (unity): 7.7MB -> 6.8MB
libcurl.dylib (unity): 7.2MB -> 6.4MB
trurl /w static libcurl (!unity): 535KB -> 251KB (same size with unity)
Ref: c4008d658aCloses#20346
After this patch curl requires targeting Vista or newer, and a toolchain
with Vista support.
Supported MSVC compilers (VS2010+) all support Vista:
- VS2012+ target Win8 (or later) by default.
- VS2010 targets Win7 by default.
Supported mingw-w64 versions (v3+) all support Vista:
- mingw-w64 v9+ target Win10 by default.
- mingw-w64 v8 and older target Server 2003 (~XP) by default.
After this patch it may be necessary to override the default Windows
target version to Vista (or newer) via:
autotools: `CPPFLAGS=-D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0600`
cmake: `-DCURL_TARGET_WINDOWS_VERSION=0x0600`
- mingw-w64 v6+ allow changing the default at toolchain build-time.
Notes:
- For non-MSVC, non-mingw-w64 toolchains, `if_nametoindex` needs to be
allowlisted in `curl_setup.h`, if they do support it.
Fixes#17985 (discussion)
Closes#18009
To simplify the directory layout.
- OS400 and vms support move from `packages` to `projects`.
- Windows README and `generate.bat` files move from `projects`
to `projects/Windows`.
Closes#20271
- to avoid dupes.
- missing slashes.
- drop `.git` suffix from GitHub git repo URLs for a few outliers.
- use short YouTube URL like curl-www does.
- sync two RFC doc URLs with others.
Closes#19879
Windows CE support was limited to successful builds with ming32ce
(a toolchain that hasn't seen an update since 2009, using an ancient gcc
version and "old mingw"-style SDK headers, that curl deprecated earlier).
Builds with MSVC were broken for a long time. mingw32ce builds were never
actually tested and runtime and unlikely to work due to missing stubs.
Windows CE toolchains also miss to comply with C89. Paired with lack of
demand and support for the platform, curl deprecated it earlier.
This patch removes support from the codebase to ease maintaining Windows
codepaths.
Follow-up to f98c0ba834#17924
Follow-up to 8491e6574c#17379
Follow-up to 2a292c3984#15975Closes#17927
- configure/cmake support for enabling the option
- supported in OpenSSL and GnuTLS backends
- when configured, Apple SecTrust is the default trust store
for peer verification. When one of the CURLOPT_* for adding
certificates is used, that default does not apply.
- add documentation of build options and SSL use
Closes#18703
- INSTALL.md: fence code to avoid wrong rendering.
Reported-by: rinsuki on github
Fixes: https://github.com/curl/curl-www/issues/480
- use `sh` instead of `bash` as fence language, for less visual noise.
- INSTALL.md: drop stray shebang.
- ECH.md: drop indent from fenced code.
- minor tidy-ups.
Ref: https://curl.se/docs/install.htmlCloses#18707
- update Microsoft documentation links.
(also drop language designator where present.)
- checksrc: allow longer than 78 character lines if they
contain a https URL. To make these links easier to use and parse.
- merge links that were split into two lines.
Closes#18626
mingw-w64 3.0 was released on 2013-09-20. Offered by Debian jessie.
1.0 and 2.0 were released in 2011. It seems unlikely that many people
use them. The oldest downloadable toolchain (that I know of) comes with
3.0. Due to this, older versions weren't CI tested, and probably seldom
tested elsewhere. The last bugfix update for both 1.0 and 2.0 was
released in 2015.
curl can now assume availability of these 3.0 features/fixes:
- 64-bit file offsets.
- `ADDRESS_FAMILY` type.
- `__MINGW_PRINTF_FORMAT` macro. (in public curl headers)
Public curl headers keep supporting older mingw-w64 versions.
Fixes#17984Closes#18010
These libraries do not support TLS 1.3 and have been marked for removal
for over a year. We want to help users select a TLS dependency that is
future-proof and reliable, and not supporting TLS 1.3 in 2025 does not
infer confidence. Users who build libcurl are likely to be served better
and get something more future-proof with a TLS library that supports
1.3.
Closes#16677
- GHA/non-native: add Android builds, both cmake and autotools,
both NDK 21 (oldest available) and 35 (newest available)
https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/main/images/ubuntu/Ubuntu2404-Readme.md
It comes with a maintenance burden to bump the oldest/latest values
with CI runner updates.
- cmake: disable `CURL_USE_PKGCONFIG` by default for Android.
To avoid picking up system package by default.
- build: add `ANDROID-<NDK-LEVEL>` flag to `buildinfo.txt`.
Also detect NDK level with the CMake built-in build method:
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-toolchains.7.html#cross-compiling-for-android
- INSTALL.md: add CMake build instructions for Android.
- INSTALL.md: make NDK levels consistent in `./configure` example.
Closes#16014
`Makefile.mk` supported MS-DOS and Amiga, but `./configure` also
supported them in a better tested and more flexible way.
This patch also adds CMake support for MS-DOS/DJGPP and Amiga OS 3.
`Makefile.mk` was not maintained. Delete it in favour of first-tier
build methods.
Also include some non-MS-DOS/AmigaOS-specific tidy-up, see details at
the end of this message.
Details:
- fix/silence all MS-DOS/DJGPP build warnings and issues.
- add MS-DOS support to cmake.
- default to `ENABLE_THREADED_RESOLVER=OFF` for MS-DOS.
- add support for `WATT_ROOT`.
- use static libcurl with MS-DOS.
- fixup default CMake suffixes/prefixes for DJGPP.
- disable hidden symbols for MS-DOS. Not supported on MS-DOS.
- opt-in MS-DOS into `USE_UNIX_SOCKETS`.
- improve MS-DOS support in autotools.
- default to `--disable-threaded-resolver` for MS-DOS.
- make sure to use `close_s()` (from Watt-32) with autotools and cmake.
`Makefile.mk` used it before this patch.
- GHA: add DJGPP cmake (~30s) and autotools (~60s) build jobs.
Also build tests and examples with cmake.
- improve AmigaOS support in autotools:
- configure: detect `CloseSocket()` when it's a macro.
- configure: fix `IoctlSocket` detection on AmigaOS.
- curl-amissl.m4: pass AmiSSL libs to tests/servers.
- add AmigaOS3 support to cmake:
- cmake: fix `HAVE_IOCTLSOCKET_CAMEL` and
`HAVE_IOCTLSOCKET_CAMEL_FIONBIO` detections.
- set necessary system libs.
- add AmiSSL support.
- inet_ntop, inet_pton: fix using it for AmigaOS. cmake detects them,
and they did not compile with AmigaOS.
- cmake: better sync `gethostname` detection with autotools.
Fixes detection for AmigaOS, where `gethostname` is a macro.
- cmake: fix `sys/utime.h` detection on AmigaOS.
- cmake: force-disable `getaddrinfo` for AmigaOS.
- cmake: tweak threading and static/shared default for AmigaOS.
- cmake: rely on manual variable `AMIGA` to enable the platform.
- GHA: add AmigaOS cmake and autotools (~45s) jobs.
Also build tests and examples with cmake.
- INSTALL: update MS-DOS and AmigaOS build instructions.
- amigaos: fix `-Wpointer-sign` and
`zero or negative size array '_args'` in `Printf()`.
- amigaos: fix `-Wpointer-sign`
- amigaos: fix `-Wredundant-decls` `errno` and `h_errno`.
- amigaos: brute-force silence `lseek()` size warnings.
- amigaos: server/resolve: silence `-Wdiscarded-qualifiers`.
- amigaos: server/resolve: fix `-Wpointer-sign`.
- amigaos: fix `CURL_SA_FAMILY_T` type.
- nonblock: prefer `HAVE_IOCTLSOCKET_CAMEL_FIONBIO` for AmigaOS.
`ioctl` is also detected, but fails when used. Make the above override
it for a successful build.
Authored-by: Darren Banfi
Fixes#15537Closes#15603
- tftpd: prefer `HAVE_IOCTLSOCKET_CAMEL_FIONBIO` for AmigaOS.
- tftpd: tidy-up conditional code.
- curl: set stack size to 16384 for AmigaOS3/4
Overriding the default 4096.
Suggested-by: Darren Banfi
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/15543#issuecomment-2498783123
Ref: https://wiki.amigaos.net/wiki/Controlling_Application_Stack
- functypes.h: fix `SEND_QUAL_ARG2` for AmigaOS.
- tftp: add missing cast in sendto() call for AmigaOS.
- getinfo: fix warning with AmigaOS.
- tool_operate: silence warning with AmigaOS
- amigaos: fix building libtests due to missing `RLIMIT_NOFILE`.
- curl_gethostname: silence warning for AmigaOS.
- ftp: silence `-Wtype-limits` for AmigaOS.
- libtest: fix timeval initialization for AmigaOS.
- examples: fix `timeval` initialization for AmigaOS.
- examples: silence warning for AmigaOS.
- configure: fix IPv6 detection for cross-builds.
- netrc: fix to build with AmigaOS cleanly.
- buildinfo: detect and add `DOS` tag for MS-DOS builds.
- buildinfo: add `AMIGA` to buildinfo.txt in auttools.
- build: move `USE_WATT32` macro definition to cmake/configure.
Non-MS-DOS/AmigeOS-specific tidy-ups:
- configure: sync `sa_family_t` detection with cmake.
- configure: sync `ADDRESS_FAMILY` detection signals with cmake.
- doh: use `CURL_SA_FAMILY_T`.
- lib: drop mingw-specific `CURL_SA_FAMILY_T` workaround.
- cmake: extend instead of override check-specific
configurations/requirements.
This allows to honor global requirements added earlier.
Necessary for AmigaOS for example.
- cmake: omit warning on disabled IPv6 for MS-DOS and AmigaOS.
No IPv6 support on these platforms. Also sync with autotools.
- lib1960: use libcurl `inet_pton()` wrapper.
- cmake: detect LibreSSL (to match autotools).
- cmake: say the specific OpenSSL flavour detected.
- hostip: add missing `HAVE_SOCKADDR_IN6_SIN6_SCOPE_ID` guard.
- lib: simplify classic mac feature guards.
Follow-up to a8861b6ccd#9764Closes#15543
Fix new issues found by `proselint`.
Also:
- silence this technical warning:
```
:0: DeprecationWarning: /home/runner/.proselintrc was found instead of a JSON file. Rename to /home/runner/.proselintrc.json.
```
- fix an input filename.
`proselints` fails now if an input file is missing.
Reported-by: Jay Satiro
Bug: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/15291#issuecomment-2410505100Closes#15293
Use these words and casing more consistently across text, comments and
one curl tool output:
AIX, ALPN, ANSI, BSD, Cygwin, Darwin, FreeBSD, GitHub, HP-UX, Linux,
macOS, MS-DOS, MSYS, MinGW, NTLM, POSIX, Solaris, UNIX, Unix, Unicode,
WINE, WebDAV, Win32, winbind, WinIDN, Windows, Windows CE, Winsock.
Mostly OS names and a few more.
Also a couple of other minor text fixups.
Closes#14360
Instead of use 'docs/*.md' in dep5. For clarity and avoiding a wide-
matching wildcard.
+ Remove mention of old files from .reuse/dep5
+ add info to .github/dependabot.yml
+ make scripts/copyright.pl warn on non-matching patterns
Closes#13245
This means words, phrases or things we have decided not to use - words that
are spelled right according to the dictionary but we want to avoid. In the
name of consistency and better documentation.
Closes#12764
