diff --git a/src/compile.rs b/src/compile.rs
index bc77b0722..a3f400dcf 100644
--- a/src/compile.rs
+++ b/src/compile.rs
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 use crate::build_context::BridgeModel;
-use crate::python_interpreter::InterpreterKind;
 use crate::{BuildContext, PlatformTag, PythonInterpreter};
 use anyhow::{anyhow, bail, Context, Result};
 use fat_macho::FatWriter;
@@ -176,23 +175,6 @@ fn compile_target(
         rustc_args.extend(&["-C", "link-arg=-s"]);
     }
 
-    let pythonxy_lib_folder;
-    if let BridgeModel::BindingsAbi3(_, _) = bindings_crate {
-        // NB: We set PYO3_NO_PYTHON further below.
-        // On linux, we can build a shared library without the python
-        // providing these symbols being present, on mac we can do it with
-        // the `-undefined dynamic_lookup` we use above anyway. On windows
-        // however, we get an exit code 0xc0000005 if we try the same with
-        // `/FORCE:UNDEFINED`, so we still look up the python interpreter
-        // and pass the location of the lib with the definitions.
-        if target.is_windows() {
-            let python_interpreter = python_interpreter
-                .expect("Must have a python interpreter for building abi3 on windows");
-            pythonxy_lib_folder = format!("native={}", python_interpreter.libs_dir.display());
-            rustc_args.extend(&["-L", &pythonxy_lib_folder]);
-        }
-    }
-
     let cargo_args = vec!["--message-format", "json"];
 
     let build_args: Vec<_> = cargo_args
@@ -233,17 +215,6 @@ fn compile_target(
         // but forwarding stderr is still useful in case there some non-json error
         .stderr(Stdio::inherit());
 
-    if let BridgeModel::BindingsAbi3(_, _) = bindings_crate {
-        let is_pypy = python_interpreter
-            .map(|p| p.interpreter_kind == InterpreterKind::PyPy)
-            .unwrap_or(false);
-        if !is_pypy {
-            // This will make pyo3's build script only set some predefined linker
-            // arguments without trying to read any python configuration
-            build_command.env("PYO3_NO_PYTHON", "1");
-        }
-    }
-
     if let Some(python_interpreter) = python_interpreter {
         // Target python interpreter isn't runnable when cross compiling
         if python_interpreter.runnable {