Track restoring Windows Node 26 CI and prebuilt binaries

[yanyiwu]

Background

The Node 22/24/26 workflow update landed in 23e7e4e8ba48adbe03e04012f49c427bced47d57, but the test workflow failed only on build (26.x, windows-latest) during npm ci:

• Failed run: https://github.com/yanyiwu/nodejieba/actions/runs/27119792071
• Failing job: build (26.x, windows-latest)
• Runtime/toolchain: Node 26.3.0, npm 11.16.0, Windows Server 2025, VS2022/MSVC

The install tried to download a Node 26 Windows prebuilt binary for ABI node-v147, then fell back to source compilation. The source build generated a Visual Studio project that inherited clang ThinLTO flags from the Node 26.3.0 header common.gypi, and MSVC failed at link time:

cl : warning D9002: ignoring unknown option '-flto=thin'
LINK : warning LNK4044: unrecognized option '/flto=thin'; ignored
LINK : fatal error LNK1117: syntax error in option 'opt:lldltojobs=2'

PR #275 restored green CI by excluding only windows-latest + 26.x from test.yml and github_release.yml:

• PR: [codex] Skip Windows Node 26 until MSVC build flags are fixed #275
• Merge commit: 6f79992d93c4963a6a9b36e0291e113502689537
• Post-merge test run: https://github.com/yanyiwu/nodejieba/actions/runs/27125304896

Why this needs follow-up

The matrix exclusion is a temporary workaround, not the final desired state. While Node 26 remains covered on Linux, ARM Linux, and macOS, the release workflow will not publish a Windows Node 26 prebuilt binary. Windows users on Node 26 may still fall back to local source compilation and hit the same MSVC/linker failure.

Goal

Restore windows-latest + 26.x in both workflows once the Node 26/node-gyp/MSVC ThinLTO flag issue has a reliable fix or workaround.

Suggested next steps

• Track whether a newer Node 26 release or node-gyp release stops injecting clang ThinLTO flags into MSVC builds.
• Test removing the matrix exclusion after the upstream toolchain behavior changes.
• Confirm npm ci, npm test, and node-pre-gyp package pass on Windows Node 26.
• Restore Windows Node 26 prebuilt binary publishing in github_release.yml.