To enable known linker options dropping unused, dead, code and data from
the executables built.
Useful to reduce binary sizes for curl, libcurl shared lib and apps
linking static libcurl. It's effective on both "unity" and non-unity
builds. Aligning "unity" build sizes with default, non-unity ones.
Supported platforms: Apple, MSVC, llvm/clang and GCC on all tested
platforms: Linux, BSDs, Windows, MSYS2/Cygwin, Android, MS-DOS.
Notes:
- Static libraries grow 20-30% with non-Apple toolchains.
This effect is controlled by separate, optional compiler flags on
non-Apple. This patch enables them automatically for public binaries
(libcurl and curl tool), and leaves them off for internal/test ones.
- MSVC enables this option by default for 'Release' configurations.
The curl build option has no effect on it.
- Observed effect on VS2010 is negligible. VS2012+ is recommended.
- Works with LTO, Fil-C.
- No observed/conclusive effect on build speed.
- On Windows with clang/gcc (mingw-w64/MSYS2/Cygwin) it also enables
`-fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables` as a workaround to make
the toolchain options actually work.
Ref: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11539
Thanks-to: Andarwinux
Also:
- GHA: enable in Linux and MinGW jobs to test it. Size changes:
- linux aws-lc H3:
curl: 2000000 -> 1937152, libcurl.a: 2065724 -> 2716532 bytes
- macos clang HTTP-only:
curl: 1364376 -> 128799 bytes, libcurl.a: unchanged
- macos llvm MultiSSL:
curl: 410056 -> 405720, libcurl.dylib: 1350336 -> 1348480 bytes
- mingw schannel c-ares U:
curl: 1588736 -> 1507328, libcurl-d.a: 3322040 -> 3884746 bytes
bld: 34 -> 35MB
- GHA: enable in MSVC and Apple jobs to reduce disk footprint, with no
obvious downside. Size changes:
- AppVeyor CI VS2019:
curl: 2339840 -> 1295872, libcurl-d.dll: 3155968 -> 1900544 bytes
bld: 161 -> 97MB
- AppVeyor CI VS2022 clang-cl:
curl: 2933248 -> 2332160, libcurl-d.lib: 4762688 -> 5511330 bytes
bld: 133 -> 121MB
- AppVeyor CI VS2022 HTTP-only:
curl: 3514368 -> 2177024, libcurl-d.lib: 2538420 -> 3151740 bytes
bld: 137 -> 83MB
- GHA intel:
curl: 2629120 -> 2023424, libcurl-d.lib: 4366652 -> 5350670 bytes
bld: 86 -> 69MB
- GHA arm64:
curl: 2832896 -> 2063872, libcurl-d.lib: 4690616 -> 5597250 bytes
bld: 82 -> 66MB
Refs:
https://maskray.me/blog/2021-02-28-linker-garbage-collectionhttps://web.archive.org/web/20110811230637/msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bxwfs976.aspx (VS2010)
https://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/build/reference/opt-optimizationshttps://learn.microsoft.com/cpp/build/reference/gy-enable-function-level-linkingCloses#20357
- It is slower and uses more memory than the alternatives and is only
experimental in curl.
- We disable a few tests for OpenSSL-QUIC because of flakiness
- It gets little attention from OpenSSL and we have no expectation of the
major flaws getting corrected anytime soon.
- No one has spoken up for keeping it
- curl users building with vanilla OpenSSL can still use QUIC through the
means of ngtcp2
Closes#20226
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
Turns out in practice the internal cache name contains the arch where it
matters (arm or dual-arch local builds), which is part of the cache key
string. Drop `runner.arch` to avoid two arch strings in the key.
Cache keys without an explicit arch designator mean intel.
Revert ff78af5752#20234Closes#20249
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
Tailored for each job with a relatively tight limits. Also with no
tolerance in valgrind tests: 4 of the 4 has to be run.
Based on Test Clutch feature matrix which displays the minimum and
actual number of tests:
https://testclutch.curl.se/static/reports/feature-matrix.html
Also:
- runtests.pl: include total number of tests in the error message shown
when the limit was not met.
Assisted-by: Dan Fandrich
Follow-up to 3f1cd809ee#19942Closes#20050
To run more pytest sshd tests, and for more static analysis.
Also:
- drop redundant option from `openssl libssh2 ...` config.
- GHA/linux: enable pytest in the LTO job (to test libssh2).
- avoid both with local builds of OpenSSL-forks, due to crypto lib
mixups causing a mixture of build error, crashes, test failures.
Follow-up to eb39fee40b#19934Closes#19943
GnuTLS 3.8.11 started requiring a nettle version new enough to be
missing from Ubuntu LTS released a year ago. To keep up testing it,
build nettle from source. Besides the necessary one time effort this
has the downside that nettle updates now need to be done manually
a couple of times per year when renovate detects one. (if I got the
renovate formula correct to catch the tag format).
Also:
- switch the local GnuTLS build to use the release tarball instead of
the Git repo and calling the script `bootstrap`. The script could
potentially download source code using the cleartext `git:` protocol.
It's also downloading lots of content, including a full OpenSSL repo.
Ref: 955f7a7fc2/NEWS (L41-L44)
Follow-up to 905b718de3#19642
Follow-up to a439fc0e37#19613Closes#19680
This reverts commit a439fc0e37.
It requires a version of libnettle that is not included in these Ubuntu
versions: "Libnettle 3.10 was not found"
Closes#19642
Fix SC2046: "Quote this to prevent word splitting."
Ref: https://www.shellcheck.net/wiki/SC2046
Also:
- shellcheck.sh: add `set -eu`.
- shellcheck.sh, yamlcheck.sh: always run from repo root.
- pass `--` before passing the list of files, where missing.
- badwords.pl, cleancmd.pl: rework to accept `git ls-files` arguments.
Requires Perl 5.22+ (2015-Jun-01) on Windows.
Ref: https://perldoc.perl.org/functions/open
- INTERNALS.md: require Perl 5.22 on Windows.
- spacecheck.pl: formatting.
- GHA/http3-linux: rework command to avoid SC2046.
- stop suppressing SC2046 warnings.
The yamlcheck.sh issue reported-by: Stanislav Fort (Aisle Research)
Ref: 20251109163515_6eb31da3-deb2-4f4d-8327-935904f27da5
Closes#19432
It also does shellcheck on `run:` elements, overlapping with
the homegrown `shellcheck-ci.sh` with the same purpose. But it also does
more and perhaps could replace the script too, especially in curl
sub-repos.
Also:
- GHA/macos: delete potentially useful, but commented, and ultimately
unused, non-default Xcode-testing logic. It's causing unused matrix
exceptions, upsetting actionlint.
Ref: https://github.com/rhysd/actionlintCloses#19373
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
Make autotools and cmake detect DES support in OpenSSL and mbedTLS.
Forward feature macros to C and omit NTLM from the feature preview list.
Use the feature macros in source. This ensure that `-V` output matches
the preview.
OpenSSL doesn't support DES when built with `no-des` or `no-deprecated`.
mbedTLS 4.x no longer supports it, and it's possible to disable it in
<4 with `scripts/config.py unset MBEDTLS_DES_C`.
Before this patch this worked for
mbedTLS 4 only, and with a regression for pending PR #16973.
Also:
- drop NTLM feature check from `curl_setup.h` in favour of autotools/
cmake feature macros. This makes `curl_setup.h` no longer need
to include an mbedTLS header, which in turn makes tests/server build
without depending on mbedTLS.
Fixing, in #16973:
```
In file included from tests/server/first.h:40,
from bld/tests/server/servers.c:3:
lib/curl_setup.h:741:10: fatal error: mbedtls/version.h: No such file or directory
741 | #include <mbedtls/version.h>
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
```
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/actions/runs/18689537893/job/53291322012?pr=16973
Ref: #19181 (initial fix idea)
Follow-up to 3a305831d1#19077
- move back mbedTLS header include and version check from
`curl_setup.h` to each source which consumes mbedTLS.
- GHA/http3-linux: drop workaround that disabled NTLM for
`no-deprecated` OpenSSL builds.
Follow-up to 006977859d#12384
- curl_ntlm_core: drop pointless macro `CURL_NTLM_NOT_SUPPORTED`.
Follow-up to 006977859d#12384Closes#19206
