Windows CIs failing (again)

[pramodk]

Context

As seen in the recent PRs, the windows CI is failing: https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17845811066?pr=2584

Overview of the CI issue

On Windows CI: lib/dllcrt2.o: lseek: Bad file descriptor is coming back!

test_rxd (neuron.tests.test_rxd.RxDTestCase.test_rxd) ... ld: error: C:/nrn_test/mingw/mingw64/bin/../lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/13.2.0/../../../../lib/dllcrt2.o: lseek: Bad file descriptor
[634](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:635)
NEURON: Python Callback failed [hoccommand_exec]:
[635](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:636)
Traceback (most recent call last):
[636](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:637)
  File "C:\nrn_test\lib\python\neuron\rxd\rxd.py", line 1878, in _init
[637](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:638)
    initializer._do_init()
[638](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:639)
  File "C:\nrn_test\lib\python\neuron\rxd\initializer.py", line 58, in _do_init
[639](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:640)
    rxd._init()
[640](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:641)
  File "C:\nrn_test\lib\python\neuron\rxd\rxd.py", line 1901, in _init
[641](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:642)
    _compile_reactions()
[642](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:643)
  File "C:\nrn_test\lib\python\neuron\rxd\rxd.py", line 1515, in _compile_reactions
[643](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:644)
    _cxx_compile(fxn_string),
[644](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:645)
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[645](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:646)
  File "C:\nrn_test\lib\python\neuron\rxd\rxd.py", line 546, in _cxx_compile
[646](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:647)
    dll = ctypes.cdll[f"{os.path.abspath(filename)}.so"]
[647](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:648)
          ~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[648](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:649)
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 451, in __getitem__
[649](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:650)
    return getattr(self, name)
[650](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:651)
           ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[651](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:652)
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 446, in __getattr__
[652](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:653)
    dll = self._dlltype(name)
[653](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:654)
          ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[654](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:655)
  File "C:\Python311\Lib\ctypes\__init__.py", line 376, in __init__
[655](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:656)
    self._handle = _dlopen(self._name, mode)
[656](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:657)
                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
[657](https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17840995579?pr=2584#step:11:658)
FileNotFoundError: Could not find module 'D:\a\nrn\nrn\rxddll4599bdd0-6e13-11ee-b74a-000d3a1a8b68.so' (or one of its dependencies). Try using the full path with constructor syntax.

Last time we saw the same and we made changes in #2546.

the CI that succeeded : https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6550320862/job/17789170483

  Current runner version: '2.310.2'
  Runner  Image: windows-2022
  Version: 20231002.1.0
  Included Software: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/win22/20231002.1/images/win/Windows2022-Readme.md
  Image Release: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/releases/tag/win22%2F20231002.1

And failing one

Current runner version: '2.310.2'
Runner Image
  Image: windows-2022
  Version: 20231016.1.0
  Included Software: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/blob/win22/20231016.1/images/win/Windows2022-Readme.md
  Image Release: https://github.com/actions/runner-images/releases/tag/win22%2F20231016.1

Expected result/behavior

CI should pass!

CI Logs

Working (2 days ago): https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6550320862/job/17789170483
Failing : https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/6567740016/job/17845811066?pr=2584

[JCGoran]

Also a blocker for the 8.2.4 release (#2700): https://github.com/neuronsimulator/nrn/actions/runs/7815469643/job/21320399721