Bug: linux hosted builds fail due to missing WinMD

[jonwis]

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#1239 added use of a Windows.WinMD file from the windows-rs repo to help validate conformance of cppwinrt's output. https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/pull/2609/files?file-filters%5B%5D=.winmd&show-deleted-files=true&show-viewed-files=false# renamed the file in that repo, causing the existing curl ... command in our action to fail.

We should probably have our own copy of the WinMD as test collateral available in this repo. In an ideal world, we wouldn't rely on Windows.WinMD at all and instead use a local custom metaplatform.winmd, but that's not feasible due to heavy reliance on Windows.Foundation.* types, behaviors, and attributes. It is, after all, C++/Win[dows]RT.

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[kennykerr]

FYI alvinhochun (@alvinhochun)

[kennykerr]

I much prefer smaller discrete yml workflows (hence this collection) because then you can just disable individual workflows via the GitHub Actions UX.

[kennykerr]

I've also had to remove tests that rely on GNU to build in #1348 since their import libs don't include some Windows 8 exports.

Incidentally, this is one of the reasons why windows-rs generates its own import libs:

https://github.com/microsoft/windows-rs/tree/master/crates/targets

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