- 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
Require CMake 3.18 (2020-07-15) or newer, up from 3.7 (2016-11-11)
prior to this patch.
This requirement also applies to the distributed `curl-config.cmake`.
To allow dropping compatibility code maintained for old versions, and to
use features which were unpractical in separate code paths. Also to make
testing, documentation and development easier, CI builds faster due to
CMake performance improvements over time. (e.g. integration tests on
macOS run 8x faster (10 minutes is now under 1.5m) in CI, 2.5x faster on
Windows.)
CMake offers pre-built binaries for major platforms. They work without
an install step, just by unpacking and pointing the cmake command to
them. Making upgrades easy in many cases:
https://cmake.org/download/https://cmake.org/files/https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases
CMake 3.18 brings these feature as generally available when building or
consuming curl/libcurl:
LTO support, improved performance, `pkg-config` and interface target
support, `OBJECT` target (for faster libcurl builds), modern invocation
with `-S`/`-B` options, better support for custom linker options,
FetchContent, `GnuTLS::GnuTLS` target, `--verbose` and `--install`
options, `CMAKE_GENERATOR` env, last but not least unity mode and Ninja
generator.
For maximum build speed, use:
`-DCMAKE_UNITY_BUILD=ON -DCURL_DROP_UNUSED=ON`
As for deprecations, C++11 is required to build CMake itself, which may
be a limit on some platforms. autotools continues to cover them.
Follow-up to 9bcdfb3809#20408
Follow-up to a7c974e038#19902
Follow-up to dfbe035c8b#10161
Discussion: https://github.com/curl/curl/discussions/18704Closes#20407
- update `actions/checkout` from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2
- update `ruff` from 0.14.11 to 0.14.14
- update `cryptography` from 46.0.3 to 46.0.4
- update `psutil` from 7.2.1 to 7.2.2
- update `websockets` from 15.0.1 to 16.0
Closes#20490Closes#20491
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 building libcurl in both static and shared flavor by default.
It results in 1.5-2.x speed-up for the curl build step in most jobs.
Saving a total of 6-7 minutes. In the Cygwin job alone it saves 1-1.5m.
Also:
- enable static + shared in a Windows job to keep testing this combo.
Follow-up to ff958fc4b2#20159Closes#20167
To detect mistakes made in the runtests framework that reduce
the number of test runs. Before this patch it could go undetected with
a green CI.
The minimum thresholds will need light maintenance going forward (either
bumping them periodically, or adjust if some may fell below minimums for
justified reasons). We may also make minimums tighter or looser, or more
job-specific.
Latest number of test runs for each job can be seen at Test Clutch:
https://testclutch.curl.se/static/reports/feature-matrix.html
Also:
- GHA: set minimums.
Assisted-by: Dan Fandrich
Follow-up to f2a75a14dd
Follow-up to bb1391f943#19510Closes#19942
Install CMake from the Kitware GitHub release archive. To allow choosing
its version independently from the OS.
Switch to 3.7.0 (from 3.7.2) to test the earliest supported version.
Also tested OK with 3.18.4 and 3.7.2.
The download and install step takes 1-2 seconds.
Follow-up to c9e50e9e39#19737Closes#19738
- use `AM`/`CM` where missing.
In GHA/linux-old and AppVeyor CI.
To denote autotools and CMake, and to align with rest of the jobs.
- rename `Old Linux` to `Linux Old` to align with the rest of Linux
jobs on GitHub web views sorted by name.
Closes#19316
To silence zizmor 1.16.0 warnings.
Also:
- http3-linux: replace hard-coded workflow name with variable.
Follow-up to a8174176b5#13841
- codeql: set `cancel-in-progress: true`.
zizmor apparently does not allow `false` in pedantic mode anymore:
https://github.com/zizmorcore/zizmor/pull/1227
- codeql: sync concurrency setting with the rest of the jobs.
(I'm not sure this is correct, or why it was previously special-cased.)
Expressions used (before and after this patch):
- `group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.sha }}-${{ github.event.target_url }}`
for GHA/appveyor-status.
- `group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.sha }}`
for all the rest.
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/18776245057/job/53571438139?pr=19209Closes#19215
The kerberos5 library Heimdal is one of three GSS libraries curl support.
It has a memory leak triggered by the new test in #18917 and the project
seems mostly abandoned.
Drop support and steer users to the MIT krb5 or GNU GSS libraries.
Co-authored-by: Daniel Stenberg
Ref: #18928Closes#18928Closes#18932
As done in other jobs, but here tailored to old cmake.
The logs generated by ancient CMake aren't super useful though.
Cherry-picked from #18932Closes#18948
actions/checkout@v5 requires a newer libstdc++ than the container
contains. Update it to a backwards-compatible version just like we
already do for libc6.
Ref: #18250Closes#18255
In CI we want to ensure that examples build cleanly, but we don't want
to actually run them there. Meaning it's enough to just compile, but not
link them in CI. Saving time up to 2-4x (MSVC), and disk space up
to 1.2GB (or 8-70x).
Add a new cmake target that compiles all examples without linking them
into runnable binaries. Keep a full build for a single example to test
if it links correctly.
Also:
- CI: switch over all `curl-examples` targets to `curl-examples-build`
- GHA/linux-old: build examples in one of the cmake builds.
Result highlights:
Job | Bef. | Bef. | Aft. | Aft. |
:------------------ | ---: | ----: | ---: |----: |
cygwin | 15s | 9MB | 10s | 1MB |
msys | 13s | 8MB | 7s | 1MB |
dl-mingw 15 | 39s | 113M | 34s | 2MB |
dl-mingw 9.5.0 | 49s | 115MB | 42s | 2MB |
dl-mingw 7.3.0 | 19s | 113MB | 14s | 2MB |
dl-mingw 6.4.0 | 9s | 12MB | 7s | 4MB |
Linux cross | 19s | 28MB | 19s | 2MB |
MSVC UWP | 65s | 374MB | 9s | 17MB |
MSVC x64 | 22s | 846MB | 9s | 17MB |
VS2010 | 48s | 105MB | 15s | 9MB |
VS2022 clang-cl | 195s | 1.2GB | 51s | 20MB |
iOS Xcode | 8s | | 5s | |
macOS LibreSSL | 16s | | 11s | |
Linux aws-lc | 3s | | 1s | |
Follow-up to dda251ef10#18232Closes#18209
Job `name:` now mandatory in zizmor.
Also:
- enclose `name:` values in single-quotes, for uniformity.
- drop `name: checkout` where set, for uniformity.
- dist: also install with cmake.
- dist: replace `make` with `cmake --build` for cmake.
(to make this make-tool agnostic)
- appveyor-status: double-quote shell arguments.
- tweak existing names to be shorter, to sync terms and style across
jobs and steps.
Ref: https://github.com/zizmorcore/zizmor/releases/tag/v1.10.0Closes#17773
Make test bundles the default. Drop non-bundle build mode.
Also do all the optimizations and tidy-ups this allows, simpler builds,
less bundle exceptions, streamlined build mechanics.
Also rework the init/deinit macro magic for unit tests. The new method
allows using unique init/deinit function names, and calling them with
arguments. This is in turn makes it possible to reduce the use of global
variables.
Note this drop existing build options `-DCURL_TEST_BUNDLES=` from cmake
and `--enable-test-bundles` / `--disable-test-bundles` from autotools.
Also:
- rename test entry functions to have unique names: `test_<testname>`
This removes the last exception that was handled in the generator.
- fix `make dist` to not miss test sources with test bundles enabled.
- sync and merge `tests/mk-bundle.pl` into `scripts/mk-unity.pl`.
- mk-unity.pl: add `--embed` option and use it when `CURL_CLANG_TIDY=ON`
to ensure that `clang-tidy` does not miss external test C sources.
(because `clang-tidy` ignores code that's #included.)
- tests/unit: drop no-op setup/stop functions.
- tests: reduce symbol scopes, global macros, other fixes and tidy-ups.
- tool1621: fix to run, also fix it to pass.
- sockfilt: fix Windows compiler warning in certain unity include order,
by explicitly including `warnless.h`.
Follow-up to 6897aeb105#17468Closes#17590
zizmor 1.9.0 effectively bans using GHA macros within shell script
snippets. Rework them to pass GHA macro values via envs and use those
envs in shell snippets. `${{ env.* }}` macros could be converted
to native env references after making their names shell-compatible.
Envs and shell commands can no longer be used in GHA macro values. Most
cases could be fixed by using literals. Passing quoted values with
spaces combined with other args also doesn't work anymore. This was
replaced by passing them separately.
Despite the initial complications, avoiding GHA macros in scripts does
seems to make the CI code reasonable cleaner. It also makes it possible
to analyze the scripts with shellcheck, finding subtle issues that went
unnoticed till now.
Also:
- un-ignore and fix three existing zizmor `template-injection` issues.
- add script to extract and shellcheck all shell code stored within GHA
and Circle CI YAML files.
- add CI job to run this script.
- fix shellcheck issues discovered.
- fix minor differences between cmake and autotools FreeBSD jobs.
- merge cmake/autotools FreeBSD jobs to avoid developing unwanted
differences again.
- fix/sync quote use across shell code.
- replace `$HOME` with `~` or literal where it made sense.
- replace most `brew --prefix` with literals.
- move all curl install tests to the `curl-install*` prefix.
- add missing curl install tests to cygwin/msys/mingw/*bsd.
- pipe to `tar` instead of storing downloads on disk.
- drop unnecessary `PKG_CONFIG_PATH` when building nghttp3.
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/15461461371/job/43523546041
Ref: https://github.com/zizmorcore/zizmor/releases/tag/v1.9.0
Follow-up to e522f47986#17278Closes#17537
To avoid redundant work in CI and to avoid a single checksrc issue make
all autotools jobs fail. After this patch checksrc issues make fail
the checksrc job, the `dist / verify-out-of-tree-autotools-debug`,
`dist / maketgz-and-verify-in-tree` jobs and the fuzzer job (if run).
Of these, the `dist` jobs replicate local builds, also testing the build
logic.
Also add a script to check the complete local repository, optionally
with the build tree to verify generated C files.
Also:
- automatically run checksrc in subdirectories having a `checksrc`
target. (examples, OS400, tests http/client, unit and tunit)
- tests/libtest: make sure to run `checksrc` on generated `lib1521.c`.
(requires in-tree autotools build.)
- tests: run `checksrc` on targets also for non-`DEBUGBUILD`
builds. It ensures to check `lib1521.c` in CI via job
`dist / maketgz-and-verify-in-tree`.
- src: drop redundant `$(builddir)` in autotools builds.
- scripts: add `checksrc-all.sh` script to check all C sources and
the build directory as an option.
- use the above from CI, also make it verify all generated sources.
- silence `checksrc` issues in generated C sources.
- checksrc: add `-v` option to enable verbose mode.
- checksrc: make verbose mode show checked filename and fix to only
return error on failure.
- make sure that generated C files pass `checksrc`.
Assisted-by: Daniel Stenberg
Closes#17376
libssh 0.9.0 was shipped on June 28 2019 and is the first version
featuring the knownhosts API
Drop libssh from the GHA/linux-old CI job since it gets a libssh 0.7.3
version, too old for us now.
Closes#16200
- drop `--quiet 2` option where used, to have uniform output.
- replace `apt` with `apt-get` in one job. sync options with rest.
- replace deprecated `apt-key` command with the alternative recommended
by `apt-key(8)`.
- drop stray `cd /tmp`, no longer needed after migrating to GHA.
- shorten `--option Dpkg::Use-Pty=0` to `-o Dpkg::Use-Pty=0`.
- add `-o Dpkg::Use-Pty=0` to hide `apt-get` progress bars taking
vertical log space, where missing.
- drop `-y --no-install-suggests --no-install-recommends` `apt-get`
options. They are the default in the ubuntu-24.04 image.
- GHA/distcheck: move `name:` to top in steps where not there.
- scripts/cijobs.pl: catch `apt-get` lines with the `-o` option.
Closes#16127
- make `curl_dependency_option()` more generic.
- extend `CURL_BROTLI` and `CURL_ZSTD` options to accept
`AUTO` in addition to existing `ON` and `OFF`.
- change `CURL_BROTLI` and `CURL_ZSTD` option default
to `AUTO`. Was: `OFF`.
It brings cmake behavior closer to `./configure`.
Still different:
- `./configure` defaults to `off` which means to check default
locations. cmake checks more locations by default.
(Also tried `NO_CMAKE_PATH`, but then it checked less locations.)
- cmake returns both `brotlicommon` and `brotlidec` libs,
while `./configure` only returns the latter.
- ci: drop explicit cmake options, that are now unnecessary.
- GHA/configure-vs-cmake: make adjustments to make tests pass.
Closes#15431