Didn't know if this was appropriate for the internals list, so it is here.
This work was based on a snapshot download of Racket 9.0.0.4.
Racket builds on with MSVC (VS Build Tools 2022) with little problem. This is nice to know; it is too difficult to officially support that build. The MinGW tooling works fine.
The needed dynamic libraries (dlls, in this case) were built with vcpkg and cmake. Changes were made to the source files to use updated file names and to load additional new dependencies.
DrRacket runs. Has not crashed yet with basic use. Testing continues. There are (expected) roadblocks to testing in the Windows environment that I am working through.
Font rendering has a small but noticeable improvement. Fonts like Cascadia Code and Source Code Pro are more clear and crisp.
I think is reasonable to add an issue to update the dynamic libraries in Racket and DrRacket. This does not mean using vcpkg. The current pacman dev packages work well enough for Linux and MinGW builds. As for xcode, vcpkg could help grab and track the needed sources for the build, but it is not a requirement.