win32: improve maintainability of the windows CI configuration #484
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By creating so many build scripts, they must be maintained, which considering the current scripts are batch-scripts it means it will sometimes be too hard to fix/update them to get too little benefit. There were two main purposes in having those scripts: - Ensuring pre-build procedures (setting environment variables and running vcvars64) have been done. - Setting windows-specific project option values, such as disabling wayland/x11 support and some Unix-specific EFL modules. For the first one, after quite a lot of changes in the codebase, there's only one environment variable to be set: CMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE, which must then be passed to -Dcmake_args project option to meson. This is now done by creating a simple native-file with the cmake_args value on it, so a script to check/define it is above overkill. About vcvars64, this might be a simple "run vcvars64" (or "start a Develop Console from Visual Studio") instruction in compile and installation guides. For the second one, since meson 0.55 and further more on 0.56, there were some serious updates on cross/native-file definitions, which now fixes the issue mesonbuild/meson#6783 that was the one that blocked EFL most from relying solely on native/cross-files. Given these, there's no good reason left to keep relying on these scripts, thus simplifying the build procedure a lot and making it more reliable and customizable, since now we only depend on meson defaults and not on another language (in this case, batch-script).
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This PR depends on #483 , #481 and #476.