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authorfanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>2023-11-29 12:08:37 +0000
committerfanquake <fanquake@gmail.com>2023-12-01 10:46:19 +0000
commit308aec3e5655327d98e0428d8205d246f24d6af5 (patch)
treec65b252202a63771443d38c86fc1557fe235f274
parent35537318a19360ddf1ea8f0c1e6d8ad49e635516 (diff)
downloadbitcoin-308aec3e5655327d98e0428d8205d246f24d6af5.tar.xz
build: disable external-signer for Windows
It's come to light that Boost ASIO (a Boost Process sub dep) has in some instances, been queitly initialising our network stack on Windows (see PR #28486 and discussion in #28940). This has been shielding a bug in our own code, but the larger issue is that Boost Process/ASIO is running code before main, and doing things like setting up networking. This undermines our own assumptions about how our binary works, happens before we get to run any sanity checks, and also runs before we call our own code to setup networking. It's also not clear why a feature like external signer would have a dependency that would be doing anything network/socket related, given it only exists to spawn a local process.
-rw-r--r--build_msvc/bitcoin_config.h.in3
-rw-r--r--build_msvc/vcpkg.json1
-rw-r--r--configure.ac16
3 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/build_msvc/bitcoin_config.h.in b/build_msvc/bitcoin_config.h.in
index 1716647486..ec69307f50 100644
--- a/build_msvc/bitcoin_config.h.in
+++ b/build_msvc/bitcoin_config.h.in
@@ -41,9 +41,6 @@
/* Define this symbol to enable ZMQ functions */
#define ENABLE_ZMQ 1
-/* define if external signer support is enabled (requires Boost::Process) */
-#define ENABLE_EXTERNAL_SIGNER /**/
-
/* Define to 1 if you have the declaration of `be16toh', and to 0 if you
don't. */
#define HAVE_DECL_BE16TOH 0
diff --git a/build_msvc/vcpkg.json b/build_msvc/vcpkg.json
index 18ac8f2f09..b2c406ae12 100644
--- a/build_msvc/vcpkg.json
+++ b/build_msvc/vcpkg.json
@@ -5,7 +5,6 @@
"berkeleydb",
"boost-date-time",
"boost-multi-index",
- "boost-process",
"boost-signals2",
"boost-test",
"libevent",
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 1b5dc32b04..fd9e10d44a 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1515,9 +1515,19 @@ if test "$use_external_signer" != "no"; then
CXXFLAGS="$TEMP_CXXFLAGS"
AC_MSG_RESULT([$have_boost_process])
if test "$have_boost_process" = "yes"; then
- use_external_signer="yes"
- AC_DEFINE([ENABLE_EXTERNAL_SIGNER], [1], [Define if external signer support is enabled])
- AC_DEFINE([BOOST_PROCESS_USE_STD_FS], [1], [Defined to avoid Boost::Process trying to use Boost Filesystem])
+ case $host in
+ dnl Boost Process for Windows uses Boost ASIO. Boost ASIO performs
+ dnl pre-main init of Windows networking libraries, which we do not
+ dnl want.
+ *mingw*)
+ use_external_signer="no"
+ ;;
+ *)
+ use_external_signer="yes"
+ AC_DEFINE([ENABLE_EXTERNAL_SIGNER], [1], [Define if external signer support is enabled])
+ AC_DEFINE([BOOST_PROCESS_USE_STD_FS], [1], [Defined to avoid Boost::Process trying to use Boost Filesystem])
+ ;;
+ esac
else
if test "$use_external_signer" = "yes"; then
AC_MSG_ERROR([External signing is not supported for this Boost version])