Don't build libstd as a dylib

src/cargo/core/manifest.rs

@@ -463,6 +463,9 @@ impl Manifest {
     pub fn targets(&self) -> &[Target] {
         &self.targets
     }
+    pub fn targets_mut(&mut self) -> &mut [Target] {
+        &mut self.targets
+    }
     pub fn version(&self) -> &Version {
         self.package_id().version()
     }
@@ -752,6 +755,9 @@ impl Target {
     pub fn kind(&self) -> &TargetKind {
         &self.kind
     }
+    pub fn kind_mut(&mut self) -> &mut TargetKind {
+        &mut self.kind
+    }
     pub fn tested(&self) -> bool {
         self.tested
     }

src/cargo/core/package.rs

@@ -464,6 +464,15 @@ impl<'cfg> PackageSet<'cfg> {
         let other_sources = set.sources.into_inner();
         sources.add_source_map(other_sources);
     }
+
+    /// Get mutable access to an already downloaded package, if it's already
+    /// downoaded and it's part of this set. Does not actually attempt to
+    /// download anything if it's not already downloaded.
+    pub fn lookup_mut(&mut self, id: PackageId) -> Option<&mut Package> {
+        self.packages
+            .get_mut(&id)
+            .and_then(|cell| cell.borrow_mut())
+    }
 }
 
 // When dynamically linked against libcurl, we want to ignore some failures

src/cargo/ops/cargo_compile.rs

@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ use crate::core::compiler::{CompileMode, Kind, Unit};
 use crate::core::compiler::{DefaultExecutor, Executor, UnitInterner};
 use crate::core::profiles::{Profiles, UnitFor};
 use crate::core::resolver::{Resolve, ResolveOpts};
-use crate::core::{Package, Target};
+use crate::core::{LibKind, Package, PackageSet, Target};
 use crate::core::{PackageId, PackageIdSpec, TargetKind, Workspace};
 use crate::ops;
 use crate::util::config::Config;
@@ -315,7 +315,8 @@ pub fn compile_ws<'a>(
             // requested_target to an enum, or some other approach.
             failure::bail!("-Zbuild-std requires --target");
         }
-        let (std_package_set, std_resolve) = standard_lib::resolve_std(ws, crates)?;
+        let (mut std_package_set, std_resolve) = standard_lib::resolve_std(ws, crates)?;
+        remove_dylib_crate_type(&mut std_package_set)?;
         packages.add_set(std_package_set);
         Some(std_resolve)
     } else {
@@ -988,3 +989,35 @@ fn filter_targets<'a>(
     }
     proposals
 }
+
+/// When using `-Zbuild-std` we're building the standard library, but a
+/// technical detail of the standard library right now is that it builds itself
+/// as both an `rlib` and a `dylib`. We don't actually want to really publicize
+/// the `dylib` and in general it's a pain to work with, so when building libstd
+/// we want to remove the `dylib` crate type.
+///
+/// Cargo doesn't have a fantastic way of doing that right now, so let's hack
+/// around it a bit and (ab)use the fact that we have mutable access to
+/// `PackageSet` here to rewrite downloaded packages. We iterate over all `path`
+/// packages (which should download immediately and not actually cause blocking
+/// here) and edit their manifests to only list one `LibKind` for an `Rlib`.
+fn remove_dylib_crate_type(set: &mut PackageSet<'_>) -> CargoResult<()> {
+    let ids = set
+        .package_ids()
+        .filter(|p| p.source_id().is_path())
+        .collect::<Vec<_>>();
+    set.get_many(ids.iter().cloned())?;
+
+    for id in ids {
+        let pkg = set.lookup_mut(id).expect("should be downloaded now");
+
+        for target in pkg.manifest_mut().targets_mut() {
+            if let TargetKind::Lib(crate_types) = target.kind_mut() {
+                crate_types.truncate(0);
+                crate_types.push(LibKind::Rlib);
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
+    Ok(())
+}