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Inspired by #16587

Problems with the current situation:

  • Test cases are meant to be self-contained so they're easy to debug, dragging in the standard library makes that harder
  • Forgetting to rebuild Phobos makes test suite run with stale libphobos.a symbols and druntime sources
  • Building Phobos is slow, making the feedback loop during development slow
  • dshell tests are compiled with the compiler under test, even though those .d files are meant to be scripts like .sh files, not D source to test dmd with

This PR ensures druntime is built and only links with libdruntime.a instead of libphobos.a, unless a test has RUNNABLE_PHOBOS_TEST or COMPILABLE_MATH_TEST directives. (These already existed, but only for documentation purposes).

The ^^ related tests have been consolidated in runnable/pow.d because xtest46.d is 8000 lines, and we don't want to accidentally use Phobos outside the few remaining ^^ cases.

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@dkorpel dkorpel force-pushed the testrunner-phobos branch from 02d85de to 68293cb Compare June 3, 2026 12:28
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dkorpel and others added 7 commits June 17, 2026 21:46
The dmd test suite is supposed to be independent of Phobos.
Consolidate ^^ related tests, and only link Phobos if a test has
RUNNABLE_PHOBOS_TEST or COMPILABLE_MATH_TEST set.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
VisualD passes the dmd build configuration (e.g. Debug, RelWithAsserts)
as BUILD, but the druntime/phobos makefiles only accept debug or release.
ensureDruntime then failed with "Unrecognized BUILD=Debug". Normalize the
runtime library flavor independently from the compiler configuration.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
ensureDruntime invoked the druntime Makefile without DMD=, so its default
DMD path (generated/<os>/<build>/<model>/dmd) pointed at a nonexistent
binary on the VisualD CI (dmd lives under RelWithAsserts/), triggering a
"make -C .. dmd" that failed compiling build.d against absent Phobos.
Pass the existing compiler explicitly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The dshell prebuilt library and per-test driver were built with the host
compiler (e.g. LDC 1.23 on the VisualD CI), which is too old to parse the
current druntime/Phobos sources (short '=>' function bodies etc.), causing
parse errors when their imports were analyzed. They also import Phobos and
link against each other, so build both with the compiler under test using
PHOBOS_DFLAGS instead, matching the pre-druntime-only behaviour.

Also strip the benign LNK4255 'multiple objects of the same name' linker
warning: druntime.lib is built as one 'dmd -lib' archive and contains
several objects sharing a basename (memory.obj etc.), so the MS linker
warns when linking with -g, leaking into tests that expect no output.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
`const(string)[string].dup` yields `const(string)[string]`, which doesn't
implicitly convert to the mutable `string[string]` spawnProcess wants. Copy
the entries into a mutable AA explicitly instead.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
@dkorpel dkorpel force-pushed the testrunner-phobos branch from da22846 to e35773c Compare June 17, 2026 19:46
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