CI: create the WOW64 junctions in the workflow instead of by hand #15

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jknapp merged 1 commits from ci/wow64-junction-in-workflow into main 2026-08-10 15:00:25 +00:00

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shadow-testandClaude Opus 5	2c014fd752	CI: create the WOW64 junctions in the workflow instead of by hand ... The Windows fix was the only part of it living outside git — two junctions created by hand on the build VM. Rebuild that VM, add a second Windows runner, or reset the SYSTEM profile and Windows builds break again with an error that points nowhere near the cause. Tauri downloads candle.exe, light.exe and makensis.exe, and all three are 32-bit. A runner running as SYSTEM has %LOCALAPPDATA% under C:\Windows\System32\config\systemprofile, and WOW64 redirection serves 32-bit processes reading System32 from SysWOW64, where those directories do not exist. The bundlers cannot see their own folder: candle exits 0x80131700, makensis reports "Unable to start child process, error 0x2", and Tauri surfaces neither — only "failed to run candle.exe". The job now junctions the SysWOW64 view onto the System32 originals when it detects a profile inside System32, and skips entirely otherwise, so a runner running as a normal user is unaffected. Idempotent, and written with goto rather than nested blocks to avoid the delayed-expansion trap that already bit the MSVC step. Verified rather than assumed: the hand-made junctions were deleted from the build VM before this was pushed, so this run has to recreate them. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>	2026-08-10 07:52:34 -07:00