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> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 27 Dec 2019 21:02:50 +0000
> 
> And this let me think to Eli's point on windows missing compatibility.
> There's good chance that the reason for this is that libgccjit does use
> dlopen&friends.  Actually these are exactly the features of libgccjit
> infrastructure we do *not* use.

I'm not sure I understood you, but dlopen, dlsym etc. (or their moral
equivalents) are readily available on Windows; see src/dynlib.c.  So
that cannot be the reason why libgccjit is not available on Windows.