mort of open source project are using this extension for the import library.
The Win32 linker is supporting this extension, see
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/4/html/Using_ld_the_GNU_Linker/win32.html
section "direct linking to a dll"
LIBZSTD = dll\libzstd.dll
$(LIBZSTD): $(ZSTD_FILES)
@echo compiling dynamic library $(LIBVER)
- $(CC) $(FLAGS) -DZSTD_DLL_EXPORT=1 -Wl,--out-implib,dll\libzstd.lib -shared $^ -o $@
+ $(CC) $(FLAGS) -DZSTD_DLL_EXPORT=1 -Wl,--out-implib,dll\libzstd.dll.a -shared $^ -o $@
else