Make integration tests runnable on Windows

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Fixes #8 (closed) and #7 (closed) and #9 (closed)

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How to set up a test environment for manual testing?

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• 153751ad - Fix fs::path.c_str() being wchar on Windows
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Can't test (in a reasonable amount of time) the connection on my Windows VM, so I trust the output in #9 (comment 84101).

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