feat: comprehensive windows builds for CI

.github/workflows/windows-builds.yml

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+name: windows-builds
+
+on: [push, pull_request]
+
+env:
+  CMAKE_VERSION: 3.21.1
+  NINJA_VERSION: 1.11.1
+  CCACHE_VERSION: 4.8
+
+jobs:
+  dev-build:
+    runs-on: windows-latest
+    strategy:
+      matrix:
+        generator: ['Ninja', 'NMake Makefiles', 'Visual Studio 17 2022']
+        build_type: [Debug, Release]
+        include:
+          - build_type: Debug
+            examples: ON
+            tests: OFF # the template asap has no unit tests
+          - build_type: Release
+            examples: ON
+            tests: OFF # the template asap has no unit tests
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Setup ninja (only if the generator is 'Ninja')
+        if: matrix.generator == 'Ninja'
+        uses: abdes/gha-setup-ninja@master
+        with:
+          version: ${{ env.NINJA_VERSION }}
+
+      - name: Setup cmake
+        uses: jwlawson/actions-setup-cmake@v1
+        with:
+          cmake-version: ${{ env.CMAKE_VERSION }}
+
+      - name: Setup ccache
+        uses: Chocobo1/setup-ccache-action@v1
+        with:
+          install_ccache: true
+          update_packager_index: false
+          prepend_symlinks_to_path: false
+          windows_compile_environment: msvc # this field is required
+
+      - name: Set MSVC environment
+        uses: ilammy/msvc-dev-cmd@v1
+
+      - name: Log environment properties
+        run: |
+          echo "Build Type    : ${{matrix.build_type}}"
+          echo "Generator     : ${{matrix.generator}}"
+          if ('${{matrix.generator}}' -eq 'Ninja') {
+            ninja --version
+          }
+          cmake --version
+          ccache --version
+
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+        with:
+          submodules: recursive
+
+      - name: Configure build
+        working-directory: ${{runner.workspace}}
+        run: |
+          cmake -B build -S asap `
+            -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=${{matrix.build_type}} `
+            -G "${{ matrix.generator }}" `
+            -D USE_CCACHE=ON `
+            -D ASAP_BUILD_TESTS=${{matrix.tests}} `
+            -D ASAP_BUILD_EXAMPLES=${{matrix.examples}} `
+            -D ASAP_BUILD_DOCS=OFF `
+            -D CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=install `
+            -D CMAKE_VERBOSE_MAKEFILE=ON
+          dir build
+
+      - name: Build main targets
+        working-directory: ${{runner.workspace}}
+        run: |
+          cmake --build build --config ${{matrix.build_type}}
+
+      - name: Build test targets
+        working-directory: ${{runner.workspace}}
+        if: matrix.tests == true
+        run: |
+          cmake --build build --config ${{matrix.build_type}} --target build-all-tests
+
+      - name: Run tests with ctest
+        working-directory: ${{runner.workspace}}
+        # Hardcode 2 cores we know are there
+        run: |
+          ctest --test-dir build -C ${{matrix.build_type}} -j 2 --output-on-failure