Enable Windows ARM64 builds in CI

[oddrationale]

Summary

This PR adds native Windows ARM64 (aarch64) support by introducing a new build matrix entry and handling platform-specific tooling limitations in the GitHub Actions workflow.

Changes

Build Matrix

• Added windows-11-arm runner configuration to both build-test.yml and release.yml workflows
• Targets aarch64-pc-windows-msvc for native ARM64 Windows builds

Bun Setup (Windows ARM64)

• Split Bun installation into conditional steps
• Windows ARM64 uses x64-baseline build: Bun doesn't fully support Windows ARM64 yet (tracked in oven-sh/bun#9824), so we download the baseline x64 build which runs via emulation on ARM64 runners
• Standard Bun setup used for all other platforms
• Frontend dependencies installed with --cpu=arm64 flag on Windows ARM64 to ensure correct native module selection

Vulkan SDK (Windows ARM64)

• Manual Vulkan SDK setup required: The humbletim/[email protected] action doesn't support Windows ARM64 targets yet (tracked in humbletim/install-vulkan-sdk#22)
• Custom 4-step process implemented:
  1. Set up VULKAN_SDK environment variable
  2. Download ARM64 binaries from LunarG (version 1.4.309.0)
  3. Extract binaries using 7-Zip and add to PATH
  4. Build headers and libraries from source using humbletim/[email protected]
• Standard Vulkan SDK action used for x64 Windows builds

Rust Target

• Updated target installation condition to exclude x86_64-pc-windows-msvc (default target, doesn't need explicit installation)
• ARM64 target (aarch64-pc-windows-msvc) installed explicitly via rustup target add

Artifact Paths

• Updated artifact upload paths for cross-compilation: Windows x64 builds place artifacts in target/release/bundle/, but ARM64 cross-compilation nests them in target/aarch64-pc-windows-msvc/release/bundle/
• Added conditional path logic to handle both standard and cross-compiled output locations

[oddrationale]

@cjpais, I tested the build-test.yml GitHub Action on my branch: https://github.com/oddrationale/Handy/actions/runs/19380145278/job/55456937759

I had to disable signing binaries, but the build succeeds. I installed the resulting .msi package on my local machine and Handy is working.

The Parakeet V3 model works great! The Whisper Small model is very slow but still works. Could probably get better performance by using NPU acceleration on the Snapdragon chip. But that is for another time!

[cjpais]

Wow thank you for this! I'm just going to go ahead and merge for now and will follow up if a build from CI for testing!

[cjpais]

@oddrationale if you have both a x86 and arm machine would you mind testing the builds here? I'm not sure these are accessible to everyone so I will upload copies to the handy blob storage as well

https://github.com/cjpais/Handy/actions/runs/19403353954

Should be available here directly:

ARM .msi: https://blob.handy.computer/win-arm-ci/Handy_0.6.0_arm64_en-US.msi ARM .exe: https://blob.handy.computer/win-arm-ci/Handy_0.6.0_arm64-setup.exe x86 .msi: https://blob.handy.computer/win-arm-ci/Handy_0.6.0_x64_en-US.msi x86 .exe: https://blob.handy.computer/win-arm-ci/Handy_0.6.0_x64-setup.exe

I was able to use the arm exe on emulated windows 11 on my Mac, it worked flawlessly for parakeet. Whisper immediately crashed, though I'm sure Vulkan emulated is not the best. Curious what your results are on the actual hardware

[oddrationale]

@cjpais, I only had the chance to test the ARM version.

Parakeet V3 ran smoothly and was quite responsive.

I did encounter a crash when switching to Whisper Small, but after restarting Handy and trying again, it loaded without issues. However, the performance of Whisper Small is very slow, taking 30 seconds to a minute to process even a very short transcription.

[cjpais]

Sweet well thank you for all the work on this, I'm just happy we have a build!