feat(windows-host): mic passthrough — auto-wire audio devices + bundle VB-CABLE
The Windows virtual mic worked only with manual Sound-settings fiddling: on a headless host (no real audio output) BOTH the desktop-audio loopback and the virtual mic must run on virtual cables, and on DIFFERENT ones or the loopback re-captures the injected mic (echo). The Steam pair gives only one usable cable (Steam Streaming Speakers loopback is silent — validated), so the mic + loopback collided and echoed, and when the default playback happened to be the mic device the anti-echo guard reported the mic "unavailable". Host now auto-wires the devices at startup (audio/windows/audio_control.rs, ensure_wired_once, hooked from open_audio_capture/open_virtual_mic): default playback = a loopback-capable render that is NOT a cable and NOT the dead Steam Speakers (real output > Steam Streaming Microphone); default recording = the mic capture (VB-Cable "CABLE Output" preferred). Uses a hand-rolled IPolicyConfig vtable (the only way to set a default endpoint; not in windows/wasapi crates). Opt out with PUNKTFUNK_KEEP_DEFAULT. wasapi_mic candidates now prefer "cable input". Validated live: from a deliberately-wrong start (playback=CABLE Input) the host corrected both default endpoints at the OS level. A Windows audio endpoint can only be created by a kernel-mode driver (no UMDF path — ACX is KMDF-only), so we cannot self-sign our own like the UMDF gamepad/ display drivers. Instead the installer bundles + silently installs the official base VB-CABLE (VB-Audio donationware, vendor-signed → loads with no test-signing, redistributed under VB-Audio's bundling grant): install-vbcable.ps1 (seed the VB-Audio cert into TrustedPublisher, run -i -h) + an installaudiocable task, gated on -VbCableDir/$env:VBCABLE_DIR (the package binary is not in the repo). Attribution in packaging/windows/licenses/VB-CABLE-NOTICE.txt. .iss compiles with the path enabled. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -182,6 +182,9 @@ windows = { version = "0.62", features = [
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# Windows service supervisor (src/service.rs): a kill-on-close job object so a service crash never
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# orphans the SYSTEM host it launched into the interactive session.
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"Win32_System_JobObjects",
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# CoCreateInstance(PolicyConfigClient) — set the default audio playback/recording endpoints via the
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# undocumented IPolicyConfig (audio/windows/audio_control.rs) so mic + desktop audio auto-wire.
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"Win32_System_Com",
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] }
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# The SCM plumbing for the `service` subcommand (define_windows_service! / dispatcher / control
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# handler / ServiceManager install). Wraps the Win32 service API; the supervision loop itself uses
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