Because it simply won't compile, no other reason.
It's like trying to compile a perlXS extension (like Storable) with perl 5.005_03 (one of the first win32 versions) -- it requres significant modification of the perl core :(
I hope some future perl5 version will support this, but I wouldn't depend on it
(maybe it will be supported through cross-compiling, MinGW anyone? :D)
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