[Bug 53918] Building with external PE libraries fails when static libraries are also installed

[WineHQ Bugzilla]

https://bugs.winehq.org/show_bug.cgi?id=53918

--- Comment #2 from Zeb Figura  ---
(In reply to Jacek Caban from comment #1)
> c7a210bc2f27 fixed building Wine with clang msvc mode. libfoo.dll.a (and
> libfoo.a) is a mingw thing, when LLD is used in msvc mode, it looks for
> foo.lib. Since we provide our import libs with "mingw" names, we can't rely
> on linker to find those libraries in this case.

I guess I didn't realize that code path would turn paths "back" into -lfoo even
if they weren't written as -lfoo in the first place. On the other hand,
wouldn't we have still used --lib-suffix at that point?