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
To access the string and the length without having to directly use the
struct field names. Gives more freedom, flexbility and keeps
implementation specifics out of users' code.
Closes#16386
- fold DoH and async HTTPS-RR handling into common code.
have common cleanups, etc. Have a CURLcode result in async
handling to allow HTTPS RR parsing to fail.
- keep target, ipv4hints, ipv6hints, port and echconfig also
when resolving via cares. We need to know `target` and `port`
when evaluating possible ALPN candidates to not go astray.
- add CURL_TRC_DNS for tracing DNS operations
- replace DoH specific tracing with DNS, use doh as alias
for dns in curl_global_tracea()
Closes#16132
This also applies to --resolve of course.
Applied strparse functions on the function.
Fixes#16357
Reported-by: rmg-x on github
Closes#16358
Assisted-by: Jay Satiro
- Use the variable name 'var' instead of 'url' since the latter is also
a function name and that may confuse the user.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/16346
- replace `add_compile_options()`, `add_definitions()` with directory
properties. To harmonize this across all scripts. The new commands are
verbose, but describe better how they work. The syntax is also closer
to setting target properties, helps grepping.
- prefer `CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` over `--prefix` (in tests, CI).
- tidy up cmake invocations.
- formatting.
Closes#16238
Allow overriding the `IMPORT_LIB_SUFFIX` default with an empty value.
Also:
- add a fatal error if the implib and static lib filename are identical.
- clarify `IMPORT_LIB_SUFFIX` default value in the documentation.
Reported-by: RubisetCie on Github
Fixes#16324
Ref: 1199308dbc#11505Closes#16332
To reduce the number `-Wunused-macro` compiler warnings:
- delete unused macros.
- comment out unused macro that are part of a set.
- move macros into the scope they are used.
This may be useful to enable by default, but there are tricky cases that
I didn't manage to fix and paused the effort. E.g. internal features
checks in `openssl.c`. There is more, once those are fixed.
Closes#16279
1. make sure the check is done before the backticks are replaced
2. ignore less-than and greater-than used within backticks
(adjust proxy.md that now showed a two-space warning)
Closes#16315
Prior to this change %header{} and %output{} were explained in remarks
but not listed in the --write-out variable list.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/16299
- Add the names that can be used to select an SSL backend by name.
This change syncs the names in 3 places: curl_global_sslset
documentation, the curl tool environment variable documentation for
CURL_SSL_BACKEND and the libcurl environment variable documentation for
CURL_SSL_BACKEND.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/16256
curl 8.12.0 introduced an improved SSL session cache. All easy handles
that are added to the same multi handle automatically use the multi
handle's SSL session cache.
Clsoes #16245
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
It was wrongly bumped to 1.16.0 in db50fc6e95. While we strongly
recommend using 1.16.0 or later, we still allow builds using older
versions.
It would make sense to raise the requirement to at least 1.11.0 (Feb 19
2016) but that's not done right now.
Closes#16221
- Better explain that if the requested range (--range or CURLOPT_RANGE)
contains multiple ranges then the response contains meta information
in addition to the requested bytes.
Prior to this change it was noted that a multiple part response was
returned as-is but not what that meant. In particular, meta information
is returned in addition to the requested bytes and that may have been
unexpected.
Reported-by: Ralf A. Timmermann
Fixes https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/16139
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/16150
- Detach and disconnect an attached connection before performing.
Prior to this change it was not possible to safely reuse an easy handle
with an attached connection in a second call to curl_easy_perform. The
only known case of this is a connect-only type handle where the
connection was detached when curl_easy_perform returned, only to be
reattached by either curl_easy_send/recv.
This commit effectively reverts 2f8ecd5d and be82a360, the latter of
which treated the reuse as an error. Prior to that change undefined
behavior may occur in such a case.
Bug: https://curl.se/mail/lib-2025-01/0044.html
Reported-by: Aleksander Mazur
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/16008
Works better if we later introduce another way to do the asynch RR
resolves (together with the threaded resolver) that does not use c-ares.
Closes#16090
Rework the way `tool_hugehelp.c` is included in builds.
After this patch, with `./configure` and CMake `tool_hugehelp.c` is only
compiled when building with manuals enabled. With manuals disabled this
source file is not used anymore. The method is similar to how
8a3740bc8e implemented `tool_ca_embed.c`.
`./configure` always generates it as before, otherwise the build fails.
- winbuild: rework to not need `buildconf.bat`, but automatically use
`tool_hugehelp.c` if present (e.g. when building from an official
source tarball) and enable `USE_MANUAL` accordingly.
- `buildconf.bat`: after dropping `tool_hugehelp.c` generation, the only
logic left was `cp Makefile.dist Makefile`. This allowed to launch
winbuild builds via GNU Make in a Git repo. Drop this option together
with the batch file.
- build `libcurltool` without `USE_MANUAL` macro to exclude the manual
and the dependence on the generator commands. Drop relying on
`UNITTESTS` for this purpose.
Follow-up to 96843f4ef7#16068
- `src/mkhelp.pl`: include `tool_hugehelp.h` before using `USE_MANUAL`
to have it set in `config-*.h` builds with source tarballs created
with manual but without zlib.
Closes#16081
