[codex] ci: restore native Windows release builds

[zackees]

Summary

Restores Windows release/build jobs to real Windows runners instead of Linux-hosted cargo-xwin cross compilation.

Changes

• Points the Windows target in build.yml at windows-latest.
• Points the Windows target in release-auto.yml at windows-latest.
• Keeps the shared native-build template compatible with Linux-hosted Windows cross builds, but only installs/invokes cargo-xwin when the runner is Linux.
• Native Windows runners now fall through to the normal soldr cargo build path for CLI, daemon, and Python extension artifacts.

Validation

• git diff --check -- .github/workflows/release-auto.yml .github/workflows/build.yml .github/workflows/template_native_build.yml

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Chores
  • Updated Windows build environments to run on appropriate Windows runners instead of Linux-based systems for improved build reliability.
  • Refined cross-compilation workflow conditions to ensure build tools are correctly configured based on the runner environment.

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• .github/workflows/build.yml
• .github/workflows/release-auto.yml
• .github/workflows/template_native_build.yml

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📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

The Windows MSVC build target is migrated from Linux cross-compilation to native Windows runners. build.yml and release-auto.yml update the matrix runner from ubuntu-24.04 to windows-latest, and template_native_build.yml adds runner.os == 'Linux' guards to all cargo-xwin, xwin, PyO3 lib fetch, and MSVC build branch steps.

Changes

Windows Native Build Migration

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Runner matrix update for Windows MSVC target .github/workflows/build.yml, .github/workflows/release-auto.yml	The runner value for the x86_64-pc-windows-msvc matrix entry is changed from ubuntu-24.04 to windows-latest in both workflow files.
cargo-xwin and cross-compile step gating in build template .github/workflows/template_native_build.yml	The Install cargo-xwin, Fetch Windows Python lib for PyO3 cross-compile, Build release binaries (MSVC branch), and Build Python extension (MSVC branch) steps each add runner.os == 'Linux' to their if conditions, restricting cross-compile tooling to Linux runners only.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 1 (Trivial) | ⏱️ ~3 minutes

Possibly related PRs

• FastLED/fbuild#760: Introduced the cargo-xwin and python3.lib fetch steps in template_native_build.yml for Linux-based cross-compilation of pc-windows-msvc — the steps this PR now guards with runner.os == 'Linux'.

Poem

🐰 Hop, hop — no more Linux disguise,
The Windows build now runs under Windows skies!
cargo-xwin stays home when the runner's its own,
No cross-compiling needed when native has grown.
🪟 windows-latest at last, what a wonderful day!

✨ Finishing Touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Commit unit tests in branch codex/release-real-windows

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