curl requires Windows XP since 2023. Drop version detection code using
`GetVersionEx()` aimed to support earlier Windows versions. With that
call deleted, the embedded manifest in `curl.rc` becomes unnecessary.
Delete it too, along with the enabler logic in build systems.
This allows to stop forcing `/MANIFEST:NO` for MSVC builds. Dropping it
fixes VS2008 shared builds, that require an auto-generated SxS
(side-by-side assembly) manifest to find their CRT DLLs. This was the
issue that prevented VS2008 `curl.exe` launching on AppVeyor CI:
```
src/curl.exe: error while loading shared libraries: ?: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
```
Ref: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/curlorg/curl/builds/51577006/job/eitypvwlb1rxr11d#L261
FWIW the `curl.rc` embedded manifest wasn't ever enabled for VS2008 CI
builds either, because CMake did not pass our custom macro via
`CMAKE_RC_FLAGS` to `rc.exe`. For reasons I could not figure out.
After this patch the curl build no longer inject its own manifest, and
lets the default be applied by linkers and toolchains. It fixes VS2008
shared builds. curl continues to detect the real Windows version via
`RtlVerifyVersionInfo()` from `ntdll`.
Follow-up to 960d601481#12225
Follow-up to 5044909ca2#7810
Follow-up to ebd213270a#1221
Ref: #15972
Cherry-picked from #16394Closes#16453
- 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
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
All resources defined in lib/libcurl.rc and curl.rc are language
neutral.
winbuild/MakefileBuild.vc ALWAYS defines the macro DEBUGBUILD, so the
ifdef's in line 33 of lib/libcurl.rc and src/curl.rc are wrong.
Replace the hard-coded constants in both *.rc files with #define'd
values.
Thumbs-uped-by: Rod Widdowson, Johannes Schindelin
URL: https://curl.haxx.se/mail/lib-2018-11/0000.htmlCloses#3348
* enable it in `src/Makefile.m32`
* enable it in `winbuild/MakefileBuild.vc` if a custom manifest is
_not_ enabled via the existing `EMBED_MANIFEST` option
* enable it for all Windows CMake builds (also disable the built-in
minimal manifest, added by CMake by default.)
For other build systems, add the `-DCURL_EMBED_MANIFEST` option to
the list of RC (Resource Compiler) flags to enable the manifest
included in `src/curl.rc`. This may require to disable whatever
automatic or other means in which way another manifest is added to
`curl.exe`.
Notice that Borland C doesn't support this method due to a
long-pending resource compiler bug. Watcom C may also not handle
it correctly when the `-zm` `wrc` option is used (this option may
be unnecessary though) and regardless of options in certain earlier
revisions of the 2.0 beta version.
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/1221
Fixes https://github.com/curl/curl/issues/2591
