[New-bugs-announce] [issue38728] Update PC/pyconfig.h to support disabling auto linking

[Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin]

New submission from Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin <jchris.fillionr at kitware.com>:

When configuring project using build-system generator like CMake, the linking is explicitly handled and does not to be implicitly hard-coded in pyconfig.h

Having the "pythonXY.lib" library hard-coded in pyconfig.h currently requires to explicitly specify a link directory. While possible, this require to increase the complexity of our build-system.

I suggest we introduce a new macro (e.g PY_CONFIG_AUTOLINK_DISABLED)

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components: Windows
messages: 356158
nosy: Jean-Christophe Fillion-Robin, paul.moore, steve.dower, tim.golden, zach.ware
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: Update PC/pyconfig.h to support disabling auto linking
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.6, Python 3.7, Python 3.8, Python 3.9

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