[20.x] fix windows builds

[h-vetinari]

Backport some improvements from #189 and #191

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I just wanted to let you know that I linted all conda-recipes in your PR (recipe/meta.yaml) and found it was in an excellent condition.

I do have some suggestions for making it better though...

For recipe/meta.yaml:

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I considered the following status checks when analyzing this PR:

• linter: passed
• azure: failed

Thus the PR was not passing and not merged.

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[h-vetinari]

Thanks for the fixes!

[h-vetinari]

Huh, I must have been looking at a stale file, because I had been consciously looking to delete that, but couldn't see it.