Rework the way curl's custom Find modules advertise their properties.
Before this patch, Find modules returned detected dependency properties
(header dirs, libs, libdirs, C flags, etc.) via global variables. curl's
main `CMakeLists.txt` copied their values into global lists, which it
later applied to targets. This solution worked internally, but it was
unsuited for the public, distributed `CURLConfig.cmake` and publishing
curl's Find modules with it, due to polluting the namespace of consumer
projects. It's also impractical to apply the many individual variables
to every targets depending on libcurl.
To allow using Find modules in consumer projects, this patch makes them
define as imported interface targets, named `CURL::<dependency>`. Then
store dependency information as target properties. It avoids namespace
pollution and makes the dependency information apply automatically
to all targets using `CURL::libcurl_static`.
Find modules continue to return `*_FOUND` and `*_VERSION` variables.
For dependencies detected via `pkg-config`, CMake 3.16+ is recommended.
Older CMake versions have a varying degree of support for
propagating/handling library directories. This may cause issues in envs
where dependencies reside in non-system locations and detected via
`pkg-config` (e.g. macOS + Homebrew). Use `CURL_USE_PKGCONFIG=OFF`
to fix these issues. Or upgrade to newer CMake, or link libcurl
dynamically.
Also:
- re-enable `pkg-config` for old cmake `find_library()` integration
tests.
- make `curlinfo` build after these changes.
- distribute local Find modules.
- export the raw list of lib dependencies via `CURL_LIBRARIES_PRIVATE`.
- `CURLconfig.cmake`: use curl's Find modules to detect dependencies in
the consumer env.
- add custom property to target property debug function.
- the curl build process no longer modifies `CMAKE_C_FLAGS`.
Follow-up to e86542038d#17047
Ref: #14930
Ref: https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/1535
Ref: https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/1571
Ref: https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/1581
Ref: https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/pull/1623Closes#16973
It's pretty rough and a giant hack, but helps debugging and findind ways
while navigating the CMake maze. I find it sad CMake doesn't have
a built-in function for this that works correctly in all situations.
It's invaluable to be able to see what properties and values an object
has.
It's also possible there is a better solution to this, but I could not
find it.
Cherry-picked from #16973Closes#17701
Add CMake test project consuming curl via these methods:
`FetchContent`, `add_subdirectory()`, `find_package()`.
Also:
- GHA/distcheck: run these tests in CI.
- cmakelint: exclude a warning for calling "wonky-cased" built-in
CMake functions, such as `FetchContent_Declare()`.
Closes#16126
Prefix (or suffix) curl-defined macro and function names with `curl`.
To avoid collisions with non-curl CMake and to make them recognizable
as curl-specific calls.
Closes#15498
- quote string literals.
In the hope it improves syntax-highlighting and readability.
- use lowercase, underscore-prefixed local var names.
As a hint for scope, to help readability.
- prefer `pkg_search_module` (over `pkg_check_modules`).
They are the same, but `pkg_search_module` stops searching
at the first hit.
- more `IN LISTS` in `foreach()`.
- OtherTests.cmake: clear `CMAKE_EXTRA_INCLUDE_FILES` after use.
- add `PROJECT_LABEL` for http/client and unit test targets.
- sync `Find*` module comments and formatting.
- drop a few local variables.
- drop bogus `CARES_LIBRARIES` from comment.
- unquote numeric literal.
Follow-up to acbc6b703f#14197Closes#14388
- 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
Reported by the new script 'scripts/copyright.pl'. The script has a
regex whitelist for the files that don't need copyright headers.
Removed three (mostly usesless) README files from docs/
Closes#5141
- remove check for unsupported old CMake versions
- do not link to c-ares library twice
- modernize custom Find modules
- FindLibSSH2:
- pass version to FPHSA to show it in the output
- use LIBSSH2_VERSION define to extract the version number in
one shot. This variable exists in the header for 10 years.
- remove unneeded code
- FindNGHTTP2.cmake:
- drop needless FPHSA argument
- mark found variables as advanced
- FindNSS.cmake:
- show version number
- FindCARES.cmake:
- drop default paths
- use FPHSA instead of checking things by hand
- remove needless explict variable dereference
- simplify count_true()
- allow all policies up to version 3.16 to be set to NEW
- do not rerun check for -Wstrict-aliasing=3 every time
In contrast to every other compiler flag this has a = in it, which CMake
can't have in a variable name.
- only read the interesting strings from curlver.h
Reviewed-by: Peter Wu
Closes https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/4975
