Socket: The requested service provider could not be loaded or initialized

Environments Windows
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This is a note for anyone who might happen to bump into this issue when adding Windows to their CI setups.

When attempting to, for example, open a socket, you might see an error message like the following:

socket: The requested service provider could not be loaded or initialized

This typically happens where you are attempting to perform this socket open (or similar) in a restricted environment where the SYSTEMROOT environment variable is not set.

On Windows, the SYSTEMROOT environment variable must be preserved for DLLs to correctly load.

Ref: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/25210

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Replying to self in order to mark this as “solved” because the topic is more a “note to all”