diff --git a/src/interpreter.cc b/src/interpreter.cc
index b638e0cf1609de152a848d5fdca45533ca618b1f..209363a4f8a25c4f3abc531a56cdab19bdea0b4f 100644
--- a/src/interpreter.cc
+++ b/src/interpreter.cc
@@ -49,8 +49,6 @@ Interpreter::Interpreter()
   // this is silly, but required to be able to import dl module.
 #ifndef WIN32
   dlopen(libpython.c_str(), RTLD_LAZY | RTLD_GLOBAL);
-#else
-  LoadLibrary(libpython.c_str());
 #endif
   Py_Initialize();
   mainmod_ = PyImport_AddModule("__main__");