Drop feature detection for it at configure time.
To simplify, improve configure performance, make examples build better
standalone, and sync with curl.
Closes#2467
- knownhost: add link to file format.
- drop redundant parentheses.
- move literals to right-hand side of comparisons.
- unfold lines, drop empty lines.
Closes#2463
- drop redundant `== -1` to match rest of code.
- sync outlier pattern to init `struct string_buf` `dataptr`, to drop
repeat code and casts.
- drop redundant parentheses.
- add const to casts where missing.
Closes#2437
Also bail out right away to avoid other issues down the line.
Seen in CI when Libgcrypt could not negotiate keys with modern sshd
server on Ubuntu 26.04:
```
26: 1..2
26: Failure establishing SSH session: -5
26: Fingerprint: /home/runner/tests/test_sshd.test: line 151: 8233 Segmentation fault
(core dumped) ${LIBSSH2_TEST_EXE_RUNNER:-} "${test}"
26: not ok 1 - sshd-test_ssh2
26: libssh2_session_handshake failed (-5): Unable to exchange encryption keys
```
Ref: https://github.com/libssh2/libssh2/actions/runs/28582866680/job/84747161004?pr=2174
Ref: #2174Closes#2179
- sync picky compiler warning options with curl:
- update version mappings for latest Apple clang.
- replace `-pedantic` with `-Wpedantic` on newer toolchains.
- adjust warning cutoff versions.
- enable new picky warnings.
- unlock picky warnings for most recent MSVC.
- GHA: bump some MSVC jobs to to VS2026.
Fix fallouts:
- configure: replace `-I` with `-isystem` for dependency headers.
Notably it silences picky warnings otherwise found in 3rd-party
headers, e.g. `-Wreserved-identifier` in `gpg-error.h`,
`openssl/lhash.h`, `wolfssl/wolfcrypt/hmac.h`, or
`-Wcast-function-type-strict` in `openssl/rsa.h`.
It also aligns autotools builds with CMake (and curl builds).
Logic copied from curl.
- example/x11: fix to not use reserved symbols.
- include, src/libssh2_priv.h: silence `-Wreserved-identifier` locally.
May be fixed for real in a future patch.
- avoid using reserved C++ keyword `public`.
- openssl: silence `-Wcast-function-type-strict` locally for
non-OpenSSL3 builds.
- mbedtls, openssl: fix potentially uninitialized variable warnings.
(extend to all compilers from MSVC in openssl)
- fix `LIBSSH2_SOCKET_MASK` signedness on Windows.
- wincng: apply casts from `int` to `enum` to silence
`-Wimplicit-int-enum-cast`.
- configure: disable `-Wleading-whitespace=spaces` to due
incompatibility with `AC_FUNC_ALLOCA`.
- packet: fix to pass `int` as mask length.
- fix `-Wformat-signedness`.
- src/libssh2_priv.h: silence `-Wreserved-macro-identifier` locally for
mingw-w64 builds.
- GHA: add workaround for missing NSIS on windows-2025 runner images.
Closes#1972
Checker script and wordlist comes from curl.
Also:
- checksrc.pl: sync up with curl.
- unfold an IETF URL.
- update all IETF URLs where missing.
Closes#1959
- apply manually selected clang-format fixes.
- apply manual formatting fixes.
- move return type inline with the declaration.
(for private APIs)
- os400qc3: fix missed `_libssh2_dh_ctx` -> `libssh2_dh_ctx`.
Follow-up to 689b202320#1923
- os400qc3: drop redundant line-continuation backslashes.
- delete copy of function name from function top comments.
- move literal to right hand side in a couple of comparisons.
- drop redundant `extern` keywords.
Follow-up to 6ffb96321c#1935Closes#1936
Add `LIBSSH2_SOCKET_CLOSE()` to the public `libssh2.h` header, for user
code. It translates to `closesocket()` on Windows and `close()` on other
platforms.
Use it in example code.
It makes them more readable by reducing the number of `_WIN32` guards.
Closes#1278
Ref:
https://best.openssf.org/Compiler-Hardening-Guides/Compiler-Options-Hardening-Guide-for-C-and-C++.html
(2023-11-29)
Enable new warnings:
- replace `-Wno-sign-conversion` with `-Wsign-conversion`.
Fix them in example, tests and wincng. There remain about 360 of these
warnings in `src`. Add a TODO item for those and disable `-Werror` for
this particular warning.
- enable `-Wformat=2` for clang (in both cmake and autotools).
- enable `__attribute__((format))` for `_libssh2_debug()`,
`_libssh2_snprintf()` and in tests for `run_command()`.
`LIBSSH2_PRINTF()` copied from `CURL_TEMP_PRINTF()` in curl.
- enable `-Wimplicit-fallthrough`.
- enable `-Wtrampolines`.
Fix them:
- src: replace obsolete fall-through-comments with
`__attribute__((fallthrough))`.
- wincng: fix `-Wsign-conversion` warnings.
- tests: fix `-Wsign-conversion` warnings.
- example: fix `-Wsign-conversion` warnings.
- src: fix `-Wformat` issues in trace calls.
Also, where necessary fix `int` and `unsigned char` casts to
`unsigned int` and adjust printf format strings. These were not
causing compiler warnings.
Cast large types to `long` to avoid dealing with printf masks for
`size_t` and other C99 types. Existing code often used `int` for this.
I'll update them to `long` in an upcoming commit.
- tests: fix `-Wformat` warning.
- silence `-Wformat-nonliteral` warnings.
- mbedtls: silence `-Wsign-conversion`/`-Warith-conversion`
in external header.
Closes#1257
Instead of `WIN32`.
The compiler defines `_WIN32`. Windows SDK headers or build env defines
`WIN32`, or we have to take care of it. The agreement seems to be that
`_WIN32` is the preferred practice here.
Minor downside is that CMake uses `WIN32` and we also adopted it in
`Makefile.mk`.
In public libssh2 headers we stick with accepting either `_WIN32` or
`WIN32` and define our own namespaced `LIBSSH2_WIN32` based on them.
grepping for `WIN32` remains useful to detect Windows-specific code.
Closes#1195
- All files have prominent copyright and SPDX identifier
- If not embedded in the file, in the .reuse/dep5 file
- All used licenses are in LICENSES/ (not shipped in tarballs)
- A new REUSE CI job verify that all files are OK
Assisted-by: Viktor Szakats
Closes#1084
Also:
- uppercase `(C)`.
- add missing 'All rights reserved.' lines.
- drop duplicate 'Author' lines.
- add copyright headers where missing.
- enable copyright header check in checksrc.
Reasons for deleting years (copied as-is from curl):
- 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
Closes#1082
- drop unused or duplicate C headers.
- add missing ones (that worked by chance).
(`string.h`, `stdlib.h`)
- mention the functions that need certain headers.
- move some headers from crypto header to crypto C source.
- reorder headers in some places.
- simplify the #if tree for `sys/select.h` in `libssh2_priv.h`.
- move scp-specific macros next to their header to `scp.c`
Follow-up to 5db836b2a8Closes#999
- fix skip auth if `userauthlist` is NULL.
Closes#836 (Reported-by: @sudipm-mukherjee on github)
- fix most silenced `checksrc` warnings.
- sync examples/tests code between each other.
(output messages, error handling, declaration order, comments)
- stop including unnecessary headers.
- always deinitialize in case of error.
- drop some redundant variables.
- add error handling where missing.
- show more error codes.
- switch `perror()` to `fprintf()`.
- fix some `printf()`s to be `fprintf()`.
- formatting.
Closes#960
- drop unnecessary `WIN32`-specific branches.
- add `static`.
- sync header inclusion order.
- sync some common code between examples/tests.
- fix formatting/indentation.
- fix some `checksrc` errors not caught by `checksrc`.
Closes#936
- introduce the concept of a project level setup header
`src/libssh2_setup.h`, that is used by `src`, `example` and `tests`
alike. Move there all common platform/compiler configuration from
`src/libssh2_priv.h`, individual sources and `CMakeFiles.txt` files.
Also move there our hand-crafted (= not auto-generated by CMake or
autotools) configuration `win32/libssh2-config.h`.
- `win32` directory is empty now, delete it.
- `Makefile.mk`: adapt to the above. Build-directory is the target
triplet, or any custom name set via `BLD_DIR`.
- sync header path order between build systems:
build/src -> source/src -> source/include
- delete redundant references to `windows.h`, `winsock2.h`,
`ws2tcpip.h`.
- delete unnecessary #includes, update order (`libssh2_setup.h` first,
`winsock2.h` first), simplify where possible.
This makes the code warning-free without `WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN`.
At the same time this patch applies this macro globally, to avoid
header bloat.
- example: add missing *nix header guards.
- example: fix misindented `HAVE_UNISTD_H` `#ifdef`s.
- set `WIN32` with all build-tools.
- set `HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H` in the hand-crafted config for MinGW.
To match auto-detection.
- move a source-specific macro to `misc.c` from `libssh2_priv.h`.
See the PR's individual commits for step-by-step updates.
Closes#932
- in `win32/libssh2_config.h` replace `_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE` with
`_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS`, to use the official macro for this, like
in CMake.
Also, it's now safe to move it back under `_MSC_VER`.
Suppressing:
`warning C4996: 'fopen': This function or variable may be unsafe. Consider using fopen_s instead.`
`warning C4996: 'getenv': This function or variable may be unsafe. Consider using _dupenv_s instead.`
- move `_CRT_NONSTDC_NO_DEPRECATE` to `example` and `tests`.
Not needed for `src`.
Suppressing:
`warning C4996: 'strdup': The POSIX name for this item is deprecated. Instead, use the ISO C and C++ conformant name: _strdup.`
`warning C4996: 'write': The POSIX name for this item is deprecated. Instead, use the ISO C and C++ conformant name: _write.`
- move `_WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS` from source files to
CMake files, in `example` and `tests`. Also limit this to MSVC.
Suppressing:
`warning C4996: 'inet_addr': Use inet_pton() or InetPton() instead`
TODO: try fixing these instead of suppressing.
Closes#929
`libssh2.h` required `winsock2.h` for `_WIN32` since
81d53de4dc (2011-06-04).
Apply that to the whole codebase. This makes it unnecessary to detect
`HAVE_WINSOCK2_H` and allows to drop all its uses.
Completes TODO from b66d7317ca
TODO: Straighten out the use a mixture of `HAVE_WINDOWS_H`,
`WIN32`, `_WIN32` to detect Windows.
Fix or silence all C compiler warnings discovered with (or without)
`PICKY_COMPILER=ON` (in CMake). This means all warnings showing up in
CI (gcc, clang, MSVS 2013/2015), in local tests on macOS (clang 14) and
Windows cross-builds using gcc (12) and llvm/clang (14/15).
Also fix the expression `nread -= nread` in `sftp_RW_nonblock.c`.
Cherry-picked from: #846Closes#861
- in `hostkey.c` check the result of `libssh2_sha256_init()` and
`libssh2_sha512_init()` calls. This avoid the warning that we're
ignoring the return values.
- fix code using `int` (or `SOCKET`) for sockets. Use libssh2's
dedicated `libssh2_socket_t` and `LIBSSH2_INVALID_SOCKET` instead.
- fix compiler warnings due to `STATUS_*` macro redefinitions between
`ntstatus.h` / `winnt.h`. Solve it by manually defining the single
`STATUS` value we need from `ntstatus.h` and stop including the whole
header.
Fixes#733
- improve Windows UWP/WinRT builds by detecting it with code copied
from the curl project. Then excluding problematic libssh2 parts
according to PR by Dmitry Kostjučenko.
Fixes#734
- always use `SecureZeroMemory()` on Windows.
We can tweak this if not found or not inlined by a C compiler which
we otherwise support. Same if it causes issues with UWP apps.
Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/previous-versions/windows/desktop/legacy/aa366877(v=vs.85)
Ref: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/ddi/wdm/nf-wdm-rtlsecurezeromemory
- always enable `LIBSSH2_CLEAR_MEMORY` on Windows. CMake and
curl-for-win builds already did that. Delete `SecureZeroMemory()`
detection from autotools' WinCNG backend logic, that this
setting used to depend on.
TODO: Enable it for all platforms in a separate PR.
TODO: For clearing buffers in WinCNG, call `_libssh2_explicit_zero()`,
insead of a local function or explicit `SecureZeroMemory()`.
- Makefile.inc: move `os400qc3.h` to `HEADERS`. This fixes
compilation on non-unixy platforms. Recent regression.
- `libssh2.rc`: replace copyright with plain ASCII, as in curl.
Ref: curl/curl@1ca62bb
Ref: curl/curl#7765
Ref: curl/curl#7776
- CMake fixes and improvements:
- enable warnings with llvm/clang.
- enable more comprehensive warnings with gcc and llvm/clang.
Logic copied from curl:
233810bb5f/CMakeLists.txt (L131-L148)
- fix `Policy CMP0080` CMake warning by deleting that reference.
- add `ENABLE_WERROR` (default: `OFF`) option. Ported from curl.
- add `PICKY_COMPILER` (default: `ON`) option, as known from curl.
It controls both the newly added picky warnings for llvm/clang and
gcc, and also the pre-existing ones for MSVC.
- `win32/GNUmakefile` fixes and improvements:
- delete `_AMD64_` and add missing `-m64` for x64 builds under test.
- add support for `ARCH=custom`.
It disables hardcoded Intel 64-bit and Intel 32-bit options,
allowing ARM64 builds.
- add support for `LIBSSH2_RCFLAG_EXTRAS`.
To pass custom options to windres, e.g. in ARM64 builds.
- add support for `LIBSSH2_RC`. To override `windres`.
- delete support for Metrowerks C. Last released in 2004.
- `win32/libssh2_config.h`: delete unnecessary socket #includes
`src/libssh2_priv.h` includes `winsock2.h` and `ws2tcpip.h` further
down the line, triggered by `HAVE_WINSOCK2_H`.
`mswsock.h` does not seem to be necessary anymore.
Double-including these (before `windows.h`) caused compiler failures
when building against BoringSSL and warnings with LibreSSL. We could
work this around by passing `-DNOCRYPT`. Deleting the duplicates
fixes these issues.
Timeline:
2013: c910cd382d deleted `mswsock.h` from `src/libssh2_priv.h`
2008: 8c43bc52b1 added `winsock2.h` and `ws2tcpip.h` to `src/libssh2_priv.h`
2005: dc4bb1af96 added the now deleted #includes
- delete or replace `LIBSSH2_WIN32` with `WIN32`.
- replace hand-rolled `HAVE_WINDOWS_H` macro with `WIN32`. Also delete
its detections/definitions.
- delete unused `LIBSSH2_DARWIN` macro.
- delete unused `writev()` Windows implementation
There is no reference to `writev()` since 2007-02-02, commit
9d55db6501.
- fix a bunch of MSVC / llvm/clang / gcc compiler warnings:
- `warning C4100: '...': unreferenced formal parameter`
- using value of undefined PP macro `LIBSSH2DEBUG`
- missing void from function definition
- `if()` block missing in non-debug builds
- unreferenced variable in non-debug builds
- `warning: must specify at least one argument for '...' parameter of variadic macro [-Wgnu-zero-variadic-macro-arguments]`
in `_libssh2_debug()`
- `warning C4295: 'ciphertext' : array is too small to include a terminating null character`
- `warning C4706: assignment within conditional expression`
- `warning C4996: 'inet_addr': Use inet_pton() or InetPton() instead or
define _WINSOCK_DEPRECATED_NO_WARNINGS to disable deprecated API warnings`
By suppressning it. Would be best to use inet_pton() as suggested.
On Windows this needs Vista though.
- `warning C4152: nonstandard extension, function/data pointer conversion in expression`
(silenced locally)
- `warning C4068: unknown pragma`
Ref: https://ci.appveyor.com/project/libssh2org/libssh2/builds/46354480/job/j7d0m34qgq8rag5wCloses#808
