build with --py-limited-api does not link library with -lpython3 on Windows with mingw32-x64

[genotrance]

pypa/setuptools#4224 describes the entire issue and I was told to reopen here. Ideally we could move that issue here. Originally started with python-cffi/cffi#61 who redirected to setuptools.

To summarize - mingw32 works great on Windows with --py-limited-api=cp32 and --compiler=mingw32, except for linking to the specific Python version -lpython312. If I manually change the link command to -lpython3 and update the wheel, it works on all Python versions. So the compile works fine, just not the link.

[lazka]

I've added a comment to the source issue: pypa/setuptools#4224 (comment)

[lazka]

I think this should be moved to setuptools, because py-limited-api is not part of distutils.