[RyeMutt]

Fixes the build (windows-11-vs2026-arm, release, arm64, Tests) link failure, "The process cannot access the file because it is being used by another process". It hit xui_translate_repair on #581 and #584 and llui_libtest on #578.

Cause

The step that fails is vcpkg's post-link vcpkg z-applocal. vcpkg's toolchain adds it to every executable declared while VCPKG_APPLOCAL_DEPS is on. The three llui utilities are ready at the same moment, so they link together.

Their shared directory, sharedlibs/<config>, is not the cause. On Windows the spell checker is the system's, so the utilities import no port's DLL and z-applocal copies nothing. Launching 80 copies of vcpkg.exe at once, 8 rounds:

Command	Failures
z-applocal, each into its own directory	3 of 640
z-applocal, all into one directory	5 of 640
vcpkg version	6 of 640

Starting vcpkg.exe while another one starts sometimes fails. d5095f9 found the same thing for the test binaries.

Commits

1. Format llui/utils and llcorehttp's CMake files with gersemi. Formatting only, so the fix diff stays small.

2. Stop running vcpkg's app-local step on the tools a tests build makes. These now set VCPKG_APPLOCAL_DEPS OFF, as al_add_test_binary does for tests:

   • the three llui utilities;
   • http_texture_load, the other executable in sharedlibs/<config>;
   • llimage_libtest.

   Each exists only in a tests build and runs from the build tree. xui_overlay_check's ctest entry still runs with AL_TEST_ENVIRONMENT's PATH. Serializing the steps instead would leave them racing every other vcpkg.exe launch in the build, and a Ninja job pool does nothing under MSBuild.

Not covered

• A tests-on configure still runs z-applocal on five projects: alchemy-bin, dullahan_host, media_plugin_cef, media_plugin_libvlc and template_verifier. They can still race each other.
• With AL_USE_WINSPELLCHECK=OFF, llui links Hunspell's DLL. llui_libtest and xui_translate_repair no longer copy it into sharedlibs/<config>, so the llui tests would need vcpkg's bin directory on their PATH. No CI row builds that way.

Testing

On a fresh Windows vs2026-os configure with -DAL_BUILD_TESTS=ON:

• none of the five changed targets' projects has the z-applocal step;
• the three utilities build in Release, with no vcpkg.exe launch in the log;
• ctest -R xui_overlay_check passes;
• llui_libtest and xui_translate_repair start.

Not yet run on ARM64. This PR's CI run is the first check there.

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