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diff --git a/cffi/setuptools_ext.py b/cffi/setuptools_ext.py
index df5a518..8fe3614 100644
--- a/cffi/setuptools_ext.py
+++ b/cffi/setuptools_ext.py
@@ -84,11 +84,13 @@ def _set_py_limited_api(Extension, kwds):
On Windows, with CPython <= 3.4, it's better not to use py_limited_api
because virtualenv *still* doesn't copy PYTHON3.DLL on these versions.
- For now we'll skip py_limited_api on all Windows versions to avoid an
- inconsistent mess.
+ Recently (2020) we started shipping only >= 3.5 wheels, though. So
+ we'll give it another try and set py_limited_api on Windows >= 3.5.
"""
+ from cffi import recompiler
+
if ('py_limited_api' not in kwds and not hasattr(sys, 'gettotalrefcount')
- and sys.platform != 'win32'):
+ and recompiler.USE_LIMITED_API):
import setuptools
try:
setuptools_major_version = int(setuptools.__version__.partition('.')[0])