disable windows tests on github

.github/workflows/build.yaml

@@ -26,6 +26,6 @@ jobs:
           sudo tar x -C /usr/local -f zig-linux-${ARCH}-${ZIG_VERSION}.tar.xz
           sudo ln -s /usr/local/zig-linux-${ARCH}-${ZIG_VERSION}/zig /usr/local/bin/zig
       - name: Run tests
-        run: zig build test --verbose
+        run: zig build test -Dbroken-windows --verbose # Github runners try to run the windows tests despite disabling foreign checks
       - name: Build example
         run: ( cd example && zig build ) # Make sure example builds

.github/workflows/zig-mach.yaml

@@ -33,6 +33,6 @@ jobs:
           sudo ln -s /usr/local/"${file%%.tar.xz}"/zig /usr/local/bin/zig
           zig version
       - name: Run tests
-        run: zig build test --verbose
+        run: zig build test -Dbroken-windows --verbose
       - name: Build example
         run: ( cd example && zig build ) # Make sure example builds

.github/workflows/zig-nightly.yaml

@@ -31,6 +31,6 @@ jobs:
           sudo ln -s /usr/local/"${file%%.tar.xz}"/zig /usr/local/bin/zig
           zig version
       - name: Run tests
-        run: zig build test --verbose
+        run: zig build test -Dbroken-windows --verbose
       - name: Build example
         run: ( cd example && zig build ) # Make sure example builds

build.zig

@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ pub fn build(b: *Builder) !void {
     // between Debug, ReleaseSafe, ReleaseFast, and ReleaseSmall.
     const optimize = b.standardOptimizeOption(.{});
 
+    const broken_windows = b.option(
+        bool,
+        "broken-windows",
+        "Windows is broken in this environment (do not run Windows tests)",
+    ) orelse false;
     // TODO: Embed the current git version in the code. We can do this
     // by looking for .git/HEAD (if it exists, follow the ref to /ref/heads/whatevs,
     // grab that commit, and use b.addOptions/exe.addOptions to generate the
@@ -188,6 +193,7 @@ pub fn build(b: *Builder) !void {
 
     // test_step.dependOn(&run_unit_tests.step);
     for (test_targets) |t| {
+        if (broken_windows and t.os_tag == .windows) continue;
         // Creates a step for unit testing. This only builds the test executable
         // but does not run it.
         const unit_tests = b.addTest(.{