[Work in progress] Fix gz-sim on Windows

[traversaro]

🦟 Bug fix

Fixes #<NUMBER>

Summary

This work in progress PR permits to run gz sim on Windows. It is currently in draft, but I opened it to avoid the risk of losing the changes.

Checklist

• [ ] Signed all commits for DCO
• [ ] Added tests
• [ ] Updated documentation (as needed)
• [ ] Updated migration guide (as needed)
• [ ] Consider updating Python bindings (if the library has them)
• [ ] codecheck passed (See contributing)
• [ ] All tests passed (See test coverage)
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Codecov Report

All modified and coverable lines are covered by tests :white_check_mark:

Project coverage is 65.89%. Comparing base (ab18888) to head (4bf5328). Report is 91 commits behind head on gz-sim8.

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[azeey]

@traversaro are you planning to get this in for the Ionic release? If not, no worries, just let me know and I'll remove the beta label.

[azeey]

@traversaro, as far as I know the preferred direction here is to implement the standalone binaries, but we don't have a PR for that for gz-sim yet, so I'll go ahead and remove the beta label. My hope is to get back to https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-tools/issues/7 once Ionic is released.

[traversaro]

@traversaro, as far as I know the preferred direction here is to implement the standalone binaries, but we don't have a PR for that for gz-sim yet, so I'll go ahead and remove the beta label.

Sorry, my bad, I forgot to reply. I totally agree, handling all the signal passing with Ruby proved to be impossible, see https://github.com/gazebosim/gz-sim/issues/2393#issuecomment-2089810431 for more details. I think we can safely close this PR.