curl-curl/.github/workflows/linux-old.yml
Viktor Szakats 89043ba906
cmake: drop support for CMake 3.17 and older
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/18704

Closes #20407
2026-03-21 13:24:47 +01:00

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# Copyright (C) Daniel Fandrich, <dan@coneharvesters.com>, et al.
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: curl
#
# Compile on an old version of Linux that has barely the minimal build
# requirements for CMake. This tests that curl is still usable on really
# outdated systems.
#
# Debian stretch is chosen as it closely matches some of the oldest major
# versions we support (especially cmake); see docs/INTERNALS.md and it
# is still supported (as of this writing).
# stretch has ELTS support from Freexian until 2027-06-30
# For ELTS info see https://www.freexian.com/lts/extended/docs/how-to-use-extended-lts/
# The Debian key expires 2025-05-20, after which package signature
# verification may need to be disabled.
# httrack is one of the smallest downloaders, needed to bootstrap ELTS,
# and doesn not conflict with the curl we are building.
name: 'Linux Old'
'on':
push:
branches:
- master
- '*/ci'
paths-ignore:
- '**/*.md'
- '.circleci/**'
- 'appveyor.*'
- 'Dockerfile'
- 'projects/**'
pull_request:
branches:
- master
paths-ignore:
- '**/*.md'
- '.circleci/**'
- 'appveyor.*'
- 'Dockerfile'
- 'projects/**'
concurrency:
group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.sha }}
cancel-in-progress: true
permissions: {}
env:
MAKEFLAGS: -j 5
CURL_CI: github
CURL_TEST_MIN: 1500
DEBIAN_FRONTEND: noninteractive
jobs:
cmake-autotools:
name: 'autotools & cmake'
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
container: 'debian:stretch'
steps:
- name: 'install prereqs'
# Remember, this shell is dash, not bash
run: |
sed -E -i -e s@[a-z]+\.debian\.org/@archive.debian.org/debian-archive/@ -e '/ stretch-updates /d' /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get -o Dpkg::Use-Pty=0 update
# See comment above if this fails after 2025-05-20
apt-get -o Dpkg::Use-Pty=0 install -y --no-install-suggests --no-install-recommends httrack
httrack --get https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/pool/main/f/freexian-archive-keyring/freexian-archive-keyring_2022.06.08_all.deb
sha256sum freexian-archive-keyring_2022.06.08_all.deb && dpkg -i freexian-archive-keyring_2022.06.08_all.deb
echo 'deb http://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts stretch-lts main contrib non-free' | tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/extended-lts.list
apt-get -o Dpkg::Use-Pty=0 update
apt-get -o Dpkg::Use-Pty=0 install -y --no-install-suggests --no-install-recommends make automake autoconf libtool ninja-build gcc pkg-config libpsl-dev libzstd-dev zlib1g-dev libc-ares-dev libkrb5-dev libldap2-dev librtmp-dev stunnel4
# GitHub's actions/checkout needs newer glibc and libstdc++. The latter also depends on
# gcc-8-base, but it does not actually seem used in our situation and is not available in
# the main repo, so force the install.
httrack --get https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/pool/main/g/glibc/libc6_2.28-10+deb10u5_amd64.deb
httrack --get https://deb.freexian.com/extended-lts/pool/main/g/gcc-8/libstdc++6_8.3.0-6_amd64.deb
sha256sum libc6_*_amd64.deb libstdc++6_*_amd64.deb && dpkg -i --force-depends libc6_*_amd64.deb libstdc++6_*_amd64.deb
- name: 'install prereqs (cmake)'
env:
CMAKE_VERSION: 3.18.0 # Earliest version supported by curl
CMAKE_SHA256: 4d9a9d3351161073a67e49366d701b6fa4b0343781982dc5eef08a02a750d403
run: |
cd ~
fn="cmake-${CMAKE_VERSION}-linux-x86_64"
httrack --get "https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v${CMAKE_VERSION}/${fn}.tar.gz"
sha256sum "${fn}".tar*.gz | tee /dev/stderr | grep -qwF -- "${CMAKE_SHA256}" && tar -xf "${fn}".tar*.gz && rm -f "${fn}".tar*.gz
mv "cmake-${CMAKE_VERSION}-Linux-x86_64" cmake
- uses: actions/checkout@de0fac2e4500dabe0009e67214ff5f5447ce83dd # v6.0.2
with:
persist-credentials: false
- name: 'CM build-only configure (out-of-tree)'
run: |
~/cmake/bin/cmake -B bld-1 -G Ninja -DCMAKE_UNITY_BUILD=ON -DCURL_WERROR=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
-DCURL_ENABLE_SSL=OFF -DENABLE_ARES=OFF -DCURL_ZSTD=OFF -DCURL_USE_GSSAPI=OFF -DCURL_USE_LIBSSH2=OFF -DCURL_USE_LIBSSH=OFF -DUSE_LIBRTMP=ON
- name: 'CM build-only build'
run: |
~/cmake/bin/cmake --build bld-1 --verbose
~/cmake/bin/cmake --install bld-1 --verbose
- name: 'CM build-only curl -V'
run: bld-1/src/curl --disable --version
- name: 'CM build-only configure log'
if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
run: cat bld-1/CMakeFiles/CMake*.log 2>/dev/null || true
- name: 'CM build-only curl_config.h'
run: |
echo '::group::raw'; cat bld-1/lib/curl_config.h || true; echo '::endgroup::'
grep -F '#define' bld-1/lib/curl_config.h | sort || true
# when this job can get a libssh version 0.9.0 or later, this should get
# that enabled again
- name: 'CM configure (out-of-tree, c-ares, zstd, gssapi)'
run: |
~/cmake/bin/cmake -B bld-cares -G Ninja -DCMAKE_UNITY_BUILD=ON -DCURL_WERROR=ON -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
-DCURL_ENABLE_SSL=OFF -DENABLE_ARES=ON -DCURL_USE_GSSAPI=ON -DCURL_USE_LIBSSH2=OFF -DCURL_USE_LIBSSH=OFF -DUSE_LIBRTMP=ON \
-DCURL_LIBCURL_VERSIONED_SYMBOLS=ON
- name: 'CM configure log'
if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
run: cat bld-cares/CMakeFiles/CMake*.log 2>/dev/null || true
- name: 'CM curl_config.h'
run: |
echo '::group::raw'; cat bld-cares/lib/curl_config.h || true; echo '::endgroup::'
grep -F '#define' bld-cares/lib/curl_config.h | sort || true
- name: 'CM build'
run: ~/cmake/bin/cmake --build bld-cares
- name: 'CM curl -V'
run: bld-cares/src/curl --disable --version
- name: 'CM install'
run: ~/cmake/bin/cmake --install bld-cares
- name: 'CM build tests'
run: ~/cmake/bin/cmake --build bld-cares --target testdeps
- name: 'CM run tests'
run: ~/cmake/bin/cmake --build bld-cares --target test-ci
- name: 'CM build examples'
run: ~/cmake/bin/cmake --build bld-cares --target curl-examples-build
- name: 'AM autoreconf'
run: autoreconf -fi
- name: 'AM configure (out-of-tree, c-ares, zstd, gssapi)'
run: |
mkdir bld-am
cd bld-am
../configure --prefix="$PWD"/../curl-install-am --enable-unity --enable-warnings --enable-werror --disable-shared \
--disable-dependency-tracking --enable-option-checking=fatal \
--without-ssl --enable-ares --without-libssh2 --with-zstd --with-gssapi --with-librtmp
- name: 'AM configure log'
if: ${{ !cancelled() }}
run: cat bld-am/config.log 2>/dev/null || true
- name: 'AM curl_config.h'
run: |
echo '::group::raw'; cat bld-am/lib/curl_config.h || true; echo '::endgroup::'
grep -F '#define' bld-am/lib/curl_config.h | sort || true
- name: 'AM build'
run: make -C bld-am
- name: 'AM curl -V'
run: bld-am/src/curl --disable --version
- name: 'AM install'
run: make -C bld-am install
- name: 'AM build tests'
run: make -C bld-am/tests all