Hallo!
The ugly kludge is used in the test/RC versions(branch-v0-39-2-extended), just not in 0.40.2 yet (HEAD/MAIN of Pd-extended). I'm not going to port the kludge, it was a mistake to port it from 0.38.4 to 0.39.2, so I am not going to repeat that mistake.
Okay ... Have you plans to get it working with configure+etc for windows in the next time ?
(I don't want to stress - I am only interessted in the plan for the future ... :)
Thanks, LG Georg