Is it possible to use the windows(-sys) crate to provide Windows APIs in libstd?

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Currently std uses manually coded Windows API bindings, while today we have windows(-sys) crate with bindings generated from metadata, which is technically better. Is it possible to make std depend on windows(-sys) crate when cfg(windows) and then use it to provide Windows API bindings?

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This must be possible, since std already depends on libc crate for POSIX APIs.

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This is actually the case now, it was updated pretty recently: Start using `windows sys` for Windows FFI bindings in std by ChrisDenton · Pull Request #110152 · rust-lang/rust · GitHub

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