BLD: allow to build with non-MSVC compilers on Windows

Always passing --vsenv to meson means pandas can't be built with gcc/clang
on Windows.

Instead add it to the cibuildwheel config so MSVC is still forced in CI
when building wheels, and in various places where it is built via pip.

Author: lazka

.github/actions/build_pandas/action.yml

@@ -26,9 +26,9 @@ runs:
       run: |
         if [[ ${{ inputs.editable }} == "true" ]]; then
           pip install -e . --no-build-isolation -v --no-deps \
-            -Csetup-args="--werror"
+            -Csetup-args="--werror" -Csetup-args="--vsenv"
         else
           pip install . --no-build-isolation -v --no-deps \
-            -Csetup-args="--werror"
+            -Csetup-args="--werror" -Csetup-args="--vsenv"
         fi
       shell: bash -el {0}

.github/workflows/unit-tests.yml

@@ -356,7 +356,7 @@ jobs:
           python -m pip install --upgrade pip setuptools wheel meson[ninja]==1.2.1 meson-python==0.13.1
           python -m pip install --pre --extra-index-url https://pypi.anaconda.org/scientific-python-nightly-wheels/simple numpy
           python -m pip install versioneer[toml] python-dateutil tzdata cython hypothesis>=6.84.0 pytest>=7.3.2 pytest-xdist>=3.4.0 pytest-cov
-          python -m pip install -ve . --no-build-isolation --no-index --no-deps -Csetup-args="--werror"
+          python -m pip install -ve . --no-build-isolation --no-index --no-deps -Csetup-args="--werror" -Csetup-args="--vsenv"
           python -m pip list
 
       - name: Run Tests

pyproject.toml

@@ -143,9 +143,6 @@ versionfile_build = "pandas/_version.py"
 tag_prefix = "v"
 parentdir_prefix = "pandas-"
 
-[tool.meson-python.args]
-setup = ['--vsenv'] # For Windows
-
 [tool.cibuildwheel]
 skip = "cp36-* cp37-* cp38-* cp39-* pp* *_i686 *_ppc64le *_s390x"
 build-verbosity = 3
@@ -162,6 +159,7 @@ before-build = "PACKAGE_DIR={package} bash {package}/scripts/cibw_before_build.s
 [tool.cibuildwheel.windows]
 environment = {}
 before-build = "pip install delvewheel && bash {package}/scripts/cibw_before_build_windows.sh"
+config-settings = "setup-args=--vsenv"
 test-command = """
   set PANDAS_CI='1' && \
   python -c "import pandas as pd; \