Forwarding data in a DLL

I need to forward a set of symbols from one DLL to another (to support some versioning scheme, PEP 384 if you wonder). It works fine for functions; I write a module definition file, saying

LIBRARY "python3"
EXPORTS
  PyArg_Parse=python32.PyArg_Parse
  PyArg_ParseTuple=python32.PyArg_ParseTuple
  PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords=python32.PyArg_ParseTupleAndKeywords
[...]

However, it fails for data. If I say

PyBaseObject_Type=python32.PyBaseObject_Type

then the linker complains that PyBaseObject_Type is an unresolved symbol, even though it actually is exported from python32.dll. Looking at the import library, I notice that, for data, there is only the _imp__ symbol, so I tried

PyBaseObject_Type=python32._imp__PyBaseObject_Type

The linker does actually create a DLL now, however, in this DLL, the forwarding goes to the _imp__ symbol, which then cannot be resolved at runtime. I also tried putting DATA into the line (with or without the _imp__); this doesn't make a difference.

IIUC, forwarding data should work fine, since the data is declared as __declspec(dllimport) for any importer of the DLL, so the compiler should interpret the reference correctly.

So: How can I generate a DLL that does data forwarding?

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