Build failed on Windows (logrus/syslog)

[matrixbot]

This issue was originally created by @NikitaPuzyryov at https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/issues/1980.

Background information

• Dendrite version or git SHA: master (329c9e6) (bisected to 1bee1ae)
• Monolith or Polylith?: Monolith or Pinecone demo (the ones I tried)
• SQLite3 or Postgres?: -
• Running in Docker?: -
• go version: go1.17 windows/amd64

Description

The following error is thrown when trying to build Dendrite on Windows 10:

> go build .\cmd\dendrite-demo-pinecone
package github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/cmd/dendrite-demo-pinecone
        imports github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/appservice
        imports github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/appservice/api
        imports github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/userapi/storage/accounts
        imports github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/internal
        imports github.com/sirupsen/logrus/hooks/syslog: build constraints exclude all Go files in <snip>\go\pkg\mod\github.com\sirupsen\logrus@v1.8.1\hooks\syslog

[matrixbot]

This comment was originally posted by @alexfca at https://github.com/matrix-org/dendrite/issues/1980#issuecomment-912415829.

We received the same error when attempting to compile/run the latest (0.5.0) version on Windows as well. Just flagging so I am notified of any updates, and thanks @NikitaPuzyryov for logging