Move to windows-2025 Visual Studio -> 17 and update submodules

.github/workflows/build_wheels_windows.yml

@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ on:
 
 jobs:
   Build:
-    runs-on: windows-2019
+    runs-on: windows-2025
     strategy:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
@@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ jobs:
           echo "ENABLE_ROLLING=1" >> $GITHUB_ENV
         fi
     - name: Checkout
-      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
         submodules: false
         fetch-depth: 0
@@ -61,16 +61,18 @@ jobs:
       uses: microsoft/[email protected]
     - name: Setup NASM
       uses: ilammy/setup-nasm@v1
+
     - name: Build a package
       # CMake 3.25 regression fix. See https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74162633/problem-compiling-from-source-opencv-with-mvsc2019-in-64-bit-version
       run: |
         python --version
         python -m pip install --upgrade pip
         python -m pip install --upgrade setuptools
-        python -m pip install cmake==3.24.2
+        python -m pip install cmake
         python -m pip install toml && python -c "import toml; c = toml.load('pyproject.toml'); print('\n'.join(c['build-system']['requires']))" >> requirements.txt | python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
         set "CI_BUILD=1" && python setup.py bdist_wheel --py-limited-api=cp37 --dist-dir=%cd%\wheelhouse -v
       shell: cmd
+
     - name: Saving all wheels
       uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
       with:
@@ -79,7 +81,7 @@ jobs:
 
   Test:
     needs: [Build]
-    runs-on: windows-2019
+    runs-on: windows-2025
     defaults:
       run:
         shell: cmd
@@ -103,10 +105,11 @@ jobs:
         rm -rf ./.??* || true
       working-directory: ${{ github.workspace }}
     - name: Checkout
-      uses: actions/checkout@v3
+      uses: actions/checkout@v4
       with:
         submodules: true
         fetch-depth: 0
+
     - name: Set up Python ${{ matrix.python-version }}
       uses: actions/setup-python@v4
       with:

setup.py

@@ -161,16 +161,9 @@ def main():
     # Files in sourcetree outside package dir that should be copied to package.
     # Raw paths relative to sourcetree root.
     files_outside_package_dir = {"cv2": ["LICENSE.txt", "LICENSE-3RD-PARTY.txt"]}
-
-    ci_cmake_generator = (
-        ["-G", "Visual Studio 14" + (" Win64" if is64 else "")]
-        if os.name == "nt"
-        else ["-G", "Unix Makefiles"]
-    )
-
+
     cmake_args = (
-        (ci_cmake_generator if is_CI_build else [])
-        + [
+         [
             # skbuild inserts PYTHON_* vars. That doesn't satisfy opencv build scripts in case of Py3
             "-DPYTHON3_EXECUTABLE=%s" % sys.executable,
             "-DPYTHON_DEFAULT_EXECUTABLE=%s" % sys.executable,