From aa6c354d5856f6000980e0f06adeea6fc6955384 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Will Anderson <will.anderson@neurontechnologies.ai>
Date: Tue, 5 May 2026 09:09:55 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] ci: fix elc link flags (libcurl install + gcc ordering)

---
 .gitea/workflows/dev.yaml | 15 +++++++--------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.gitea/workflows/dev.yaml b/.gitea/workflows/dev.yaml
index aa1cbb7..dad8e89 100644
--- a/.gitea/workflows/dev.yaml
+++ b/.gitea/workflows/dev.yaml
@@ -40,11 +40,10 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           set -euo pipefail
 
-          # Ensure build tools are available (ci-base may not have gcc)
-          if ! command -v cc >/dev/null 2>&1; then
-            apt-get update -qq
-            apt-get install -y -qq gcc libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev
-          fi
+          # Install curl dev libs — needed to link elc.c.
+          # ci-base has gcc but not libcurl4-openssl-dev.
+          apt-get update -qq
+          apt-get install -y -qq libcurl4-openssl-dev libssl-dev
 
           DEST="${{ github.workspace }}/../foundation-el"
 
@@ -56,13 +55,13 @@ jobs:
 
           # Compile elc.c (committed C source of the El compiler) for linux/amd64.
           # The darwin arm64 binary at lang/dist/platform/elc can't run on linux.
-          # elc.c is the same compiler source but in C — compile it natively here.
+          # Note: -lcurl -lpthread must come AFTER source files on gcc/linux.
           cc -std=c11 -O2 \
              -I "$DEST/lang/el-compiler/runtime" \
-             -lcurl -lpthread \
              -o "$DEST/lang/dist/platform/elc" \
              "$DEST/lang/dist/platform/elc.c" \
-             "$DEST/lang/el-compiler/runtime/el_runtime.c"
+             "$DEST/lang/el-compiler/runtime/el_runtime.c" \
+             -lcurl -lpthread
 
           chmod +x "$DEST/lang/dist/platform/elc"
           echo "EL_HOME=$DEST/lang" >> "$GITHUB_ENV"