chore: Bump VCPKG on Windows; resolve build issues

internal/frontend/bridge-gui/bridge-gui/CMakeLists.txt

@@ -57,6 +57,11 @@ if (APPLE) # We need to link the Cocoa framework for the dock icon.
     find_library(COCOA_LIBRARY Cocoa REQUIRED)
 endif()
 
+if (WIN32)
+    add_compile_definitions(NOMINMAX) # Interference with grpc and msvc macros
+    add_compile_definitions(WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN)
+endif()
+
 
 #*****************************************************************************************************************************************************
 # Qt

internal/frontend/bridge-gui/bridge-gui/build.ps1

@@ -22,6 +22,26 @@ Write-host "Bridge-gui directory is $scriptDir"
 Write-host "Bridge repos root dir $bridgeRepoRootDir"
 Push-Location $scriptDir
 
+# There is bug in CI caused by defining the lower case and upper case
+# vars for proxy. For pure bash (case sensitive - creating
+# two env items) or pure powershell (case insensitive - by default writes any
+# changes into first defined env instance) it is transparent. But during bridge gui
+# build we are populating case sensitive env vars from bash to powershell which
+# then cause error when trying to list env vars. This is causing an error
+# during CMake lookup for CXX and build fails. Therefore we need unset the
+# lower case version if present.
+Write-Host "Checking for duplicate proxy variables..."
+@("HTTP_PROXY", "HTTPS_PROXY", "NO_PROXY") | ForEach-Object {
+  $upper = $_
+  $lower = $_.ToLower()
+      
+  if ((Test-Path "Env:$upper") -and (Test-Path "Env:$lower")) {
+    Write-Host "Removing duplicate lowercase variable: $lower"
+    Remove-Item "Env:$lower" -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
+  }
+}
+
+
 
 $ErrorActionPreference = "Stop"