fwcd / fwcd/midiloop

Failed to run on Windows 11 (both wsl2 and native)

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I tried to use `midiloop` on Windows 11 via `wsl2`, and it tries to use ALSA, but it (obviously) can't find it.

When using native Python 3.13, I'm able to `pip install .` in a venv (after installing a few things, including MinGW), but at runtime I get:

```
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "", line 198, in _run_module_as_main
File "", line 88, in _run_code
File "C:\Users\kenji\midiloop\my_env\Scripts\midiloop.exe\__main__.py", line 7, in
sys.exit(main())
~~~~^^
File "C:\Users\kenji\midiloop\my_env\Lib\site-packages\midiloop\__init__.py", line 43, in main
run_midi_device(name=args.name)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\kenji\midiloop\my_env\Lib\site-packages\midiloop\__init__.py", line 14, in run_midi_device
with mido.open_input(name, virtual=True) as inp:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\kenji\midiloop\my_env\Lib\site-packages\mido\backends\backend.py", line 96, in open_input
return self.module.Input(name, **self._add_api(kwargs))
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\kenji\midiloop\my_env\Lib\site-packages\mido\ports.py", line 165, in __init__
BasePort.__init__(self, name, **kwargs)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\kenji\midiloop\my_env\Lib\site-packages\mido\ports.py", line 90, in __init__
self._open(**kwargs)
~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\kenji\midiloop\my_env\Lib\site-packages\mido\backends\rtmidi.py", line 134, in _open
self.name = _open_port(self._rt, self.name, client_name=client_name,
~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
virtual=virtual, api=self.api)
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "C:\Users\kenji\midiloop\my_env\Lib\site-packages\mido\backends\rtmidi.py", line 86, in _open_port
rt.open_virtual_port(name)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^
File "_rtmidi.pyx", line 637, in _rtmidi.MidiBase.open_virtual_port
NotImplementedError: Virtual ports are not supported by the Windows MultiMedia API.
```

Is `midiloop` supposed to work on Windows 11? It looks like RTMidi doesn't support virtual ports on Windows. Is there another backend that does?

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