Make it possible to build curl for Windows CE using the CeGCC toolchain.
With both CMake and autotools, including tests and examples, also in CI.
The build configuration is the default one with Schannel enabled. No
3rd-party dependencies have been tested.
Also revive old code to make Schannel build with Windows CE, including
certificate verification.
Builds have been throughougly tested. But, I've made no functional tests
for this PR. Some parts (esp. file operations, like truncate and seek)
are stubbed out and likely broken as a result. Test servers build, but
they do not work on Windows CE. This patch substitutes `fstat()` calls
with `stat()`, which operate on filenames, not file handles. This may or
may not work and/or may not be secure.
About CeGCC: I used the latest available macOS binary build v0.59.1
r1397 from 2009, in native `mingw32ce` build mode. CeGCC is in effect
MinGW + GCC 4.4.0 + old/classic-mingw Windows headers. It targets
Windows CE v3.0 according to its `_WIN32_WCE` value. It means this PR
restores portions of old/classic-mingw support. It makes the Windows CE
codepath compatible with GCC 4.4.0. It also adds workaround for CMake,
which cannot identify and configure this toolchain out of the box.
Notes:
- CMake doesn't recognize CeGCC/mingw32ce, necessitating tricks as seen
with Amiga and MS-DOS.
- CMake doesn't set `MINGW` for mingw32ce. Set it and `MINGW32CE`
manually as a helper variable, in addition to `WINCE` which CMake sets
based on `CMAKE_SYSTEM_NAME`.
- CMake fails to create an implib for `libcurl.dll`, due to not
recognizing the platform as a Windowsy one. This patch adds the
necessary workaround to make it work.
- headers shipping with CeGCC miss some things curl needs for Schannel
support. Fixed by restoring and renovating code previously deleted
old-mingw code.
- it's sometime non-trivial to figure out if a fallout is WinCE,
mingw32ce, old-mingw, or GCC version-specific.
- WinCE is always Unicode. With exceptions: no `wmain`,
`GetProcAddress()`.
- `_fileno()` is said to convert from `FILE *` to `void *` which is
a Win32 file `HANDLE`. (This patch doesn't use this, but with further
effort it probably could be.)
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3989545/how-do-i-get-the-file-handle-from-the-fopen-file-structure
- WinCE has no signals, current directory, stdio/CRT file handles, no
`_get_osfhandle()`, no `errno`, no `errno.h`. Some of this stuff is
standard C89, yet missing from this platform. Microsoft expects
Windows CE apps to use Win32 file API and `FILE *` exclusively.
- revived CeGCC here (not tested for this PR):
https://building.enlyze.com/posts/a-new-windows-ce-x86-compiler-in-2024/
On `UNDER_CE` vs. `_WIN32_WCE`: (This patch settled on `UNDER_CE`)
- A custom VS2008 WinCE toolchain does not set any of these.
The compiler binaries don't contain these strings, and has no compiler
option for targeting WinCE, hinting that a vanilla toolchain isn't
setting any of them either.
- `UNDER_CE` is automatically defined by the CeGCC compiler.
https://cegcc.sourceforge.net/docs/details.html
- `UNDER_CE` is similar to `_WIN32`, except it's not set automatically
by all compilers. It's not supposed to have any value, like a version.
(Though e.g. OpenSSL sets it to a version)
- `_WIN32_WCE` is the CE counterpart of the non-CE `_WIN32_WINNT` macro.
That does return the targeted Windows CE version.
- `_WIN32_WCE` is not defined by compilers, and relies on a header
setting it to a default, or the build to set it to the desired target
version. This is also how `_WIN32_WINNT` works.
- `_WIN32_WCE` default is set by `windef.h` in CeGCC.
- `_WIN32_WCE` isn't set to a default by MSVC Windows CE headers (the
ones I checked at least).
- CMake sets `_WIN32_WCE=<ver>`, `UNDER_CE`, `WINCE` for MSVC WinCE.
- `_WIN32_WCE` seems more popular in other projects, including CeGCC
itself. `zlib` is a notable exception amongst curl dependencies,
which uses `UNDER_CE`.
- Since `_WIN32_WCE` needs "certain" headers to have it defined, it's
undefined depending on headers included beforehand.
- `curl/curl.h` re-uses `_WIN32_WCE`'s as a self-guard, relying on
its not-(necessarily)-defined-by-default property:
25b445e479/include/curl/curl.h (L77)
Toolchain downloads:
- Windows:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/cegcc/cegcc/0.59.1/cegcc_mingw32ce_cygwin1.7_r1399.tar.bz2
- macOS Intel:
https://downloads.sourceforge.net/cegcc/cegcc/0.59.1/cegcc_mingw32ce_snowleopard_r1397.tar.bz2Closes#15975
- GHA/windows: switch mingw-w64 UWP CI job to use UCRT.
`msvcr120_app` was missing `getch()` for example.
Follow-up to f988842d85#15637
This job tests compiling for UWP correctly, but the the resulting
`curl.exe` still doesn't look like a correct UWP app, now exiting
on startup with: `curl: error initializing curl library`.
- tool_getpass: restore `getch()` for UWP builds.
Follow-up to f988842d85#15637
- schannel: silence `-Werror=null-dereference` warning in mingw-w64 UWP:
```
lib/vtls/schannel_verify.c: In function 'Curl_verify_host':
lib/vtls/schannel_verify.c:558:33: error: null pointer dereference [-Werror=null-dereference]
558 | for(i = 0; i < alt_name_info->cAltEntry; ++i) {
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~
lib/vtls/schannel_verify.c:559:50: error: null pointer dereference [-Werror=null-dereference]
559 | PCERT_ALT_NAME_ENTRY entry = &alt_name_info->rgAltEntry[i];
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~
```
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/12022656065/job/33515255397?pr=15638#step:19:27
Follow-up to 9640a8ef6f#15421
- GHA/windows: fix `find` command in MSVC job step.
Follow-up to 5f9411f953#15380
- GHA/windows: drop unnecessary `windowsappcompat` lib from mingw-w64
UWP job. Also drop related MSYS2 package.
- GHA/windows: cmake 3.31.0 still invokes `windres` with wrong options
with mingw-w64 UPW. Update curl version in comment accordingly.
- GHA/windows: tidy up mingw-w64 UWP spec logic, limit it to gcc.
- GHA/windows: update comments on `curl.exe` UWP startup errors.
Closes#15638
The CRT call `getch()` isn't supported on Windows UWP. This function is
used to implement `getpass_r()` for reading a password from the console,
for platforms not supporting it natively. This patch makes this function
a dummy, so password entry from the command-line is no longer supported
for UWP apps. Though it probably did not work before this patch, due to:
CRT headers do declare `getch()`, but it's missing from the CRT DLL.
MSDN documents it as unsupported for UWP:
https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/getchhttps://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/c-runtime-library/reference/getch-getwch
Same is true for the non-deprecated `_getch()` function.
After mingw-w64 synced its implib with `msvcr120_app.dll`, the CI job
`mingw, CM x86_64 schannel R uwp` broke with:
```
[16/16] Linking C executable src\curl.exe
FAILED: src/curl.exe
[...]
D:/a/_temp/msys64/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/14.2.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld.exe:
src/CMakeFiles/curl.dir/Unity/unity_0_c.c.obj:unity_0_c.c:(.text+0x4d05): undefined reference to `getch'
```
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/11873795410/job/33089008727?pr=15597#step:19:25
Also:
- GHA/windows: bump `msys2/setup-msys2` action to
https://github.com/msys2/setup-msys2/commit/c52d1fa
This triggered the build failure above.
Closes#15597
Ref: d408f51e5a/tree/mingw-w64-crt/def-include/crt-aliases.def.inCloses#15637
Based on the standards and guidelines we use for our documentation.
- expand contractions (they're => they are etc)
- host name = > hostname
- file name => filename
- user name = username
- man page => manpage
- run-time => runtime
- set-up => setup
- back-end => backend
- a HTTP => an HTTP
- Two spaces after a period => one space after period
Closes#14073
Windows compilers define `_WIN32` automatically. Windows SDK headers
or build env defines `WIN32`, or we have to take care of it. The
agreement seems to be that `_WIN32` is the preferred practice here.
Make the source code rely on that to detect we're building for Windows.
Public `curl.h` was using `WIN32`, `__WIN32__` and `CURL_WIN32` for
Windows detection, next to the official `_WIN32`. After this patch it
only uses `_WIN32` for this. Also, make it stop defining `CURL_WIN32`.
There is a slight chance these break compatibility with Windows
compilers that fail to define `_WIN32`. I'm not aware of any obsolete
or modern compiler affected, but in case there is one, one possible
solution is to define this macro manually.
grepping for `WIN32` remains useful to discover Windows-specific code.
Also:
- extend `checksrc` to ensure we're not using `WIN32` anymore.
- apply minor formatting here and there.
- delete unnecessary checks for `!MSDOS` when `_WIN32` is present.
Co-authored-by: Jay Satiro
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg
Closes#12376
Earlier this year we changed our own stderr variable to use the standard
name `stderr` (to avoid bugs where someone is using `stderr` instead of
the curl-tool specific variable). This solution needed to override the
standard `stderr` symbol via the preprocessor. This in turn didn't play
well with unity builds and caused curl tool to crash or stay silent due
to an uninitialized stderr. This was a hard to find issue, fixed by
manually breaking out one file from the unity sources.
To avoid two these two tricks, this patch implements a different
solution: Restore using our own local variable for our stderr output and
leave `stderr` as-is. To avoid using `stderr` by mistake, add a
`checksrc` rule (based on logic we already used in lib for `strerror`)
that detects any `stderr` use in `src` and points to using our own
variable instead: `tool_stderr`.
Follow-up to 06133d3e9b
Follow-up to 2f17a9b654Closes#11958
- they are mostly pointless in all major jurisdictions
- many big corporations and projects already don't use them
- saves us from pointless churn
- git keeps history for us
- the year range is kept in COPYING
checksrc is updated to allow non-year using copyright statements
Closes#10205
Commit 3b16575ae9 removed support for
building on Novell Netware, but a few leftover traces remained. This
removes the last bits.
Closes: #9966
Reviewed-by: Daniel Stenberg <daniel@haxx.se>
Add licensing and copyright information for all files in this repository. This
either happens in the file itself as a comment header or in the file
`.reuse/dep5`.
This commit also adds a Github workflow to check pull requests and adapts
copyright.pl to the changes.
Closes#8869
Updated terminology in docs, comments and phrases to refer to C strings
as "null-terminated". Done to unify with how most other C oriented docs
refer of them and what users in general seem to prefer (based on a
single highly unscientific poll on twitter).
Reported-by: coinhubs on github
Fixes#5598Closes#5608
The file number used was wrong. This bug was introduced over 10 years
ago, proving this function isn't used much...
Bug: http://curl.haxx.se/bug/view.cgi?id=1476
Reported-by: Tamir
This reverts renaming and usage of lib/*.h header files done
28-12-2012, reverting 2 commits:
f871de0... build: make use of 76 lib/*.h renamed files
ffd8e12... build: rename 76 lib/*.h files
This also reverts removal of redundant include guard (redundant thanks
to changes in above commits) done 2-12-2013, reverting 1 commit:
c087374... curl_setup.h: remove redundant include guard
This also reverts renaming and usage of lib/*.c source files done
3-12-2013, reverting 3 commits:
13606bb... build: make use of 93 lib/*.c renamed files
5b6e792... build: rename 93 lib/*.c files
7d83dff... build: commit 13606bbfde follow-up 1
Start of related discussion thread:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-01/0012.html
Asking for confirmation on pushing this revertion commit:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-01/0048.html
Confirmation summary:
http://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2013-01/0079.html
NOTICE: The list of 2 files that have been modified by other
intermixed commits, while renamed, and also by at least one
of the 6 commits this one reverts follows below. These 2 files
will exhibit a hole in history unless git's '--follow' option
is used when viewing logs.
lib/curl_imap.h
lib/curl_smtp.h
Configuration files such as curl_config.h and all config-*.h no longer exist
nor are generated/copied into 'src' directory, now these only exist in 'lib'
directory from where curl tool sources uses them.
Additionally old src/setup.h has been refactored into src/tool_setup.h which
now pulls lib/setup.h
The possibility of a makefile needing an include path adjustment exists.
