Archives brave-<version>-win32-x64.zip (with windows release builds) are broken

[atuchin-m]

The zip archives brave-<version>-win32-x64.zip from https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/ are broken.
The chrome.dll and some other resources are missed => the browser fails to start.
Also:

1. The size much is less than standalone installed (~37MB vs 84MB, but should be near the same)
2. The problem isn't new. A year-old (Dec 2020) brave-v1.20.12-win32-x64.zip is also broken

[rebron]

cc: @mihaiplesa @brave/legacy_qa

[mihaiplesa]

We just upload the archives in the pipelines so we'd need someone to look at the browser code generating them.

[atuchin-m]

Here is the code that create the archive: https://github.com/brave/brave-core/blob/master/BUILD.gn#L370

[LaurenWags]

@atuchin-m can QA get a test plan for this one please? cc @rebron

if no manual QA is needed, we can change this to QA/No.

[atuchin-m]

You simply to download the recent win zip and check that it works (without any other brave instalation on the computer).

https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases

[stephendonner]

Verified PASSED on both

Brave	1.34.63 Chromium: 96.0.4664.110 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	d5ef0e8214bc14c9b5bbf69a1515e431394c62a6-refs/branch-heads/4664@{#1283}
OS	Windows 10 Version 20H2 (Build 19042.1415)

--and--

Brave	1.34.63 Chromium: 96.0.4664.110 (Official Build) (64-bit)
Revision	d5ef0e8214bc14c9b5bbf69a1515e431394c62a6-refs/branch-heads/4664@{#1283}
OS	Windows 11 Version 21H2 (Build 22000.348)

Steps:

1. downloaded https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/releases/download/v1.34.63/brave-v1.34.63-win32-x64.zip
2. extracted to Downloads
3. ran the brave.exe from the above folder
4. confirmed I could use the browser

Windows 10	Windows 11