Recent versions of pyo3 are able to generate an import library on Windows without a Python distribution present. This enables you to cross-compile more easily. It also likely makes builds less brittle since they aren't as dependent on a Python interpreter being available.
We should investigate using this feature or rolling a similar solution ourselves in order to facilitate more turnkey building/linking on Windows.
Recent versions of pyo3 are able to generate an import library on Windows without a Python distribution present. This enables you to cross-compile more easily. It also likely makes builds less brittle since they aren't as dependent on a Python interpreter being available.
We should investigate using this feature or rolling a similar solution ourselves in order to facilitate more turnkey building/linking on Windows.