I was able to solve this with the following patch: diff -r 85a4f0350abb setuptools_zig.py --- a/setuptools_zig.py Fri Dec 04 22:16:55 2020 +0100 +++ b/setuptools_zig.py Sun Mar 21 15:16:38 2021 -0700 @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ target = Path(self.get_ext_fullpath(ext.name)) zig = os.environ.get('PY_ZIG', 'zig') # override zig in path with specific version - bld_cmd = [zig, 'build-lib', '-dynamic', '-DPYHEXVER={}'.format(sys.hexversion), '--name', output.stem] + bld_cmd = [zig, 'build-lib', '-dynamic', '-DPYHEXVER={}'.format(sys.hexversion),...
macOS: Building module fails
Linux: @cImport requires compiling with "--library c"