refactor(platform): migrate host and executable facts

[zackees]

Closes#1309
Parent: #1306

Summary

• add neutral HostPlatform host OS/architecture/path-list facts and executable naming, PATH/PATHEXT candidate, sibling, and current-image APIs under fbuild_core::platform
• migrate shared toolchain, package, deploy, daemon, CLI, Python, serial, and test callers away from raw host cfg/compile facts/native executable spelling while preserving product-owned artifact policy
• characterize Linux-host selection for both Xtensa and RISC-V QEMU embedded targets
• teach both the independent scanner and Dylint to reject direct std::env::current_exe, with an exact one-occurrence implementation exemption
• contract the exact platform ledger from 504 to 271 rows (233 removed); research inventory is 275 including four authorized boundary implementation facts

Validation

• uv run --no-project python -m unittest ci.test_enforce_platform_boundary ci.test_platform_boundary_research ci.test_rust_toolchain_pins (28 passed)
• soldr cargo test -p fbuild-core --lib platform:: (4 passed)
• soldr cargo test -p fbuild-paths --lib (40 passed, 1 ignored)
• soldr cargo test -p fbuild-toolchain linux_host_selects_linux_artifacts_for_both_embedded_qemu_targets
• soldr cargo test -p fbuild-python --lib daemon::tests::daemon_bin_name_matches_platform
• soldr cargo test -p fbuild-cli --test daemon_crash_recovery --no-run
• soldr cargo check --workspace --all-targets
• soldr cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets -- -D warnings
• bash ./test
• independent clud-review, including blocker-fix re-review: clean

The local Windows Dylint UI harness emitted the expected new current_exe diagnostic and its golden ordering matches, but the harness itself also reports E0463 for the unchanged allowed fixture because its locally cached Dylint driver cannot resolve the installed nightly libstd. The required Linux Dylint workflow is the authoritative execution for that environment-specific harness issue.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• New Features

  • Added centralized host-platform detection and native executable naming across build, CLI, daemon, deployment, and toolchain workflows.
  • Improved runtime handling of Windows, macOS, Linux, and architecture-specific behavior.
  • Added reliable current-executable and sibling-executable discovery.

• Bug Fixes

  • Improved cross-platform executable discovery, command selection, path separators, and artifact selection.
  • Corrected platform-boundary analysis and reduced reported findings.

• Documentation

  • Documented the centralized portability APIs and updated platform-boundary research.

• Tests

  • Expanded coverage for platform detection, executable naming, discovery, and boundary enforcement.

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Walkthrough

This change adds centralized host-platform and executable APIs, migrates workspace callers from compile-time platform checks, and extends platform-boundary enforcement for native executable discovery.

Changes

Host platform migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Host and executable platform APIs crates/fbuild-core/src/platform/*	Adds HostPlatform, runtime OS and architecture accessors, path-list separators, executable naming, PATH candidates, current-image discovery, and sibling executable helpers.
Workspace caller migration crates/fbuild-*/src/**	Replaces direct cfg!, standard host constants, hardcoded executable suffixes, and direct current_exe() calls with shared platform helpers.
Toolchain and deployment selection crates/fbuild-toolchain/**, crates/fbuild-deploy/**	Uses runtime host facts for package selection while preserving existing artifact mappings and deployment behavior.
Tests and documentation crates/**/tests/**, docs/**	Updates platform-sensitive tests and documents the host-platform boundary and phase-3 migration results.

Boundary enforcement

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Finding detection and filtering ci/platform_boundary_research.py, ci/enforce_platform_boundary.py	Detects and classifies std::env::current_exe, filters private platform implementation findings, and preserves the full normalized native-import key.
Regression checks and baseline ci/test_enforce_platform_boundary.py, dylints/enforce_platform_boundary/**	Updates the ledger and Dylint baseline, validates authorized exceptions, rejects unauthorized current-image access, and checks host-selected .exe usage.
Migration records docs/platform-boundary-research*.md	Records the reduction from 504 to 271 ledger rows and the new host-fact and executable-boundary rules.

Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes

Merge Risk:🟡 Moderate · up to a60e0

This refactor changes host and executable selection across toolchain, deployment, daemon, and path handling. At the current head, Windows may select unsafe default ports, USB operations may fail during slow device re-enumeration, unsupported hosts may receive incorrect artifacts, and sibling executable paths may escape their intended directory; merge should wait for these bounded fixes.

Possibly related issues

• refactor(platform): centralize host mechanics behind fbuild-core::platform and cfg_select! #1306 — Covers the broader host-platform centralization implemented by this migration.
• refactor(platform): phase 8/9 migrate deploy, toolchain, emulator, and specialized exceptions #1314 — Covers platform-boundary migration across deploy, toolchain, emulator, Python, and build code.

Possibly related PRs

• FastLED/fbuild#1168 — Related daemon executable discovery and process identity changes.
• FastLED/fbuild#1268 — Both changes modify Teensy linker platform handling.
• FastLED/fbuild#1316 — Extends the same platform-boundary research and enforcement workflow.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 4 | ❌ 1

❌ Failed checks (1 inconclusive)

Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Linked Issues check	❓ Inconclusive	The migration and tests are evidenced, but exact ledger-row deletion cannot be verified because the relevant TSV files were excluded by !**/*.tsv.	Review the excluded TSV files and confirm the 271-row ledger plus stale and new occurrence checks.

✅ Passed checks (4 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly summarizes the primary change: migrating host and executable facts to platform-neutral APIs.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	The code, tests, lint updates, and documentation all support the linked platform-facts migration objectives.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	Docstring coverage is 100.00% which is sufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%.

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Actionable comments posted: 5

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⚠️ Outside diff range comments (1)

crates/fbuild-toolchain/src/toolchain/clang.rs (1)

350-357: 🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | 🏗️ Heavy lift

Reject unsupported host architectures before resolving toolchain artifacts.

When the host architecture is not supported natively or through documented emulation, return an error instead of selecting x86_64 artifacts:

• crates/fbuild-toolchain/src/toolchain/clang.rs#L350-L357
• crates/fbuild-toolchain/src/toolchain/esp32_metadata.rs#L41-L57
• crates/fbuild-toolchain/src/toolchain/esp8266.rs#L194-L210

Preserve Windows x86_64 emulation and the documented ESP8266 macOS ARM Rosetta package. HostOs is exhaustive, so do not add an unsupported-OS branch.

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In `@crates/fbuild-toolchain/src/toolchain/clang.rs` around lines 350 - 357,
Reject unsupported host architectures before artifact resolution in the clang
arch flow, esp32 metadata flow, and esp8266 toolchain flow. Update
crates/fbuild-toolchain/src/toolchain/clang.rs:350-357 to return an error rather
than defaulting to x86_64; apply the same validation in
crates/fbuild-toolchain/src/toolchain/esp32_metadata.rs:41-57 and
crates/fbuild-toolchain/src/toolchain/esp8266.rs:194-206. Preserve Windows
x86_64 emulation and the documented ESP8266 macOS ARM Rosetta package, and do
not add an unsupported-OS branch because HostOs is exhaustive.

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Inline comments:
In `@crates/fbuild-build/tests/flag_escaping_lint.rs`:
- Line 41: Expand the lint scan to include the compiler backend in
fbuild-library, especially the library compiler implementation, and make
detection of is_windows() syntax-aware so fully qualified, imported, and aliased
calls are matched. Preserve the existing run_command pairing requirement while
applying the check consistently across every compiler backend.
In `@crates/fbuild-core/src/platform/executable.rs`:
- Around line 60-78: Validate the name argument in current_image_sibling so it
contains exactly one file-name component: reject absolute paths and any path
containing parent-directory components with io::ErrorKind::InvalidInput before
joining it to the executable parent. Add tests covering both absolute-path and
“..” inputs, while preserving valid sibling resolution and
current_image_sibling_candidates behavior.
In `@crates/fbuild-paths/src/lib.rs`:
- Around line 93-100: Update the default-derived port selection in the visible
range-calculation logic to use the IANA dynamic range 49152–65535 on both
Windows and non-Windows platforms, preserving the existing key-based selection.
Adjust the related assertions near the port tests to validate the same inclusive
range.
In `@crates/fbuild-python/src/daemon.rs`:
- Around line 476-479: Update the test around DAEMON_BIN_NAME to assert the
platform-specific expected executable name selected by
fbuild_core::platform::host::is_windows(), rather than recomputing the value
with fbuild_core::platform::executable::name. Keep the assertion’s expected
values aligned with the Windows and non-Windows daemon names.
In `@crates/fbuild-serial/src/manager.rs`:
- Around line 124-128: Update the Windows retry-count branches in both open_port
and rebind_port_session so max_retries is 30, while preserving the existing
non-Windows value of 6.
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Outside diff comments:
In `@crates/fbuild-toolchain/src/toolchain/clang.rs`:
- Around line 350-357: Reject unsupported host architectures before artifact
resolution in the clang arch flow, esp32 metadata flow, and esp8266 toolchain
flow. Update crates/fbuild-toolchain/src/toolchain/clang.rs:350-357 to return an
error rather than defaulting to x86_64; apply the same validation in
crates/fbuild-toolchain/src/toolchain/esp32_metadata.rs:41-57 and
crates/fbuild-toolchain/src/toolchain/esp8266.rs:194-206. Preserve Windows
x86_64 emulation and the documented ESP8266 macOS ARM Rosetta package, and do
not add an unsupported-OS branch because HostOs is exhaustive.

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Regarding the non-inline unsupported-host-architecture suggestion: verified, but intentionally not changed in phase #1309. The pre-migration artifact selectors already defaulted non-AArch64 hosts to the x86_64 package (with the documented macOS ARM/Rosetta cases), and this phase is required to preserve artifact policy while moving only raw host facts behind the facade. Introducing new error-returning policy would change public behavior and belongs in the specialized toolchain/artifact phase (#1314), where signatures, callers, and supported emulation can be addressed together. The current patch preserves the original mappings exactly.

All five inline findings were addressed or withdrawn and their threads are resolved. CodeRabbit confirmed commit 5bd8bb1 for the valid fixes and acknowledged the #1323 port contract plus 809fca0 retry preservation. The non-inline unsupported-architecture suggestion is documented as out of #1309 behavior-preserving scope and deferred to #1314.