Unable to Find decay-win-gnu.tar.gz for Windows Build Workflow

[ahnaf-tahmid-chowdhury]

Description

While setting up the PyNE scikit-build build workflow for Windows, I encountered an issue with the DownloadAndExtract.cmake script. It appears to be trying to download a file named decay-win-gnu.tar.gz from PyNE's data repository on GitHub, but this file is not available there.

Error Message

-- Downloading http://raw.githubusercontent.com/pyne/data/master/decay-win-gnu.tar.gz -> decay-win-gnu.tar.gz
-- [download 0% complete]
CMake Error at cmake/DownloadAndExtract.cmake:17 (message):
  22"HTTP response code said error"
Call Stack (most recent call first):
  cmake/DownloadAndExtract.cmake:36 (download_and_extract)
  cmake/PyneMacros.cmake:217 (download_platform)
  src/CMakeLists.txt:6 (pyne_download_platform)
-- Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!

Complete workflow run is available here.

Expected Behavior

The DownloadAndExtract.cmake script should either find the correct file to download or provide clear instructions on how to obtain the required file for the Windows build workflow.

Additional Information

It seems that the file decay-win-gnu.tar.gz is missing from the PyNE data repository. To resolve this issue, we need to either provide the missing file.

Environment Information

• Operating System: Windows
• PyNE Version: dev

Note: Please let me know if there are any specific instructions or details required to build or generate the missing file for the Windows platform so that we can address this issue effectively.

[gonuke]

There is no Windows version of this file. PyNE has no previously been supported on Windows. You can avoid the need for this file with setup option --slow but will need >8GB of RAM to compile the decay module from source. The downloaded files are a way to avoid this challenge.