From bd0afe08327836fc020f3058f4d26a4ef778c61d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: memento <claude.rc@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2023 09:44:50 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] (fix) linking on windows requires to prepend with 'lib'

---
 setup.py | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c36aac93c..4ace1266f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -221,7 +221,12 @@ def run(self):
 
             self.define = _build_clib.build_flags['define']
 
-        print(self)
+        if os.name == 'nt' or sys.platform == 'win32':
+            # Apparently, the linker on Windows interprets -lxxx as xxx.lib, not libxxx.lib
+            for i, v in enumerate(self.__dict__.get('extra_link_args')):
+                if v.endswith('.lib'):
+                    self.__dict__['extra_link_args'][i] = f'lib{v}'
+
         return _build_ext.run(self)