which I could observe all the way from releases/0.4.7 up to releases/0.4.14
with MSVC 2010SP1 (16.0.40219.1) x86 target in dbg configuration
Creating library dll\win32\winhttp\winhttp.lib and object dll\win32\winhttp\winhttp.exp
LINK : warning LNK4199: /DELAYLOAD:ole32.dll ignored; no imports found from ole32.dll
Fix picked from 0.4.15-dev-4326-g
2f7dc168f29c0693203cc10901cb6dc4bb23ea75
And just for the record: Wine did the same with their:
https://source.winehq.org/git/wine.git/commitdiff/
f400f25c2516654f85e0246a4815a2bf62a73cfd
set_module_type(winhttp win32dll)
target_link_libraries(winhttp uuid wine)
-add_delay_importlibs(winhttp oleaut32 ole32 crypt32 secur32)
+add_delay_importlibs(winhttp oleaut32 crypt32 secur32)
add_importlibs(winhttp user32 advapi32 ws2_32 jsproxy msvcrt kernel32 ntdll)
add_dependencies(winhttp stdole2)
add_pch(winhttp winhttp_private.h SOURCE)