ci: remove third-party javascript usage from Windows CI #32508

1. 
   fanquake commented at 11:09 am on May 15, 2025: member

   See:

   https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/c779ee3a4044df3a263394bbb8b104aeeaa7c727/.github/workflows/ci.yml#L189-L190

   We shouldn’t need to use a third-party repo, that runs some Javascript, to configure a command prompt. The comment in our code also doesn’t explain why this is necessary. We should be able to drop this dependency.

   Also discussed in #32396.

2. fanquake added the label Windows on May 15, 2025
3. fanquake added the label Tests on May 15, 2025
4. hebasto closed this on Oct 7, 2025

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5. hebasto referenced this in commit ec5841888d on Oct 7, 2025
6. 
   hebasto commented at 11:53 am on October 10, 2025: member

   Maybe keep this issue open for visibility until the ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd action is actually removed from the repository whitelist?

   This may, in turn, require backporting some commits from bitcoin/bitcoin#32513 and waiting until for contributors to rebase their PRs.

7. fanquake reopened this on Oct 12, 2025

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