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+libFEXCore dlopen/API improvements
+Right now even though FEXCore is provided as a shared library, its API is not really something that works if you want to dlopen it.
+Static linking and dynamic linking is fine with it though. This comes from FEXCore not ever fully being designed to have dlopen be the path of usage.
+
+- Experimental branch: https://github.com/Sonicadvance1/FEX/tree/dlopen_improvements
+- This provides a little test application that can execute test code
+   - `LD_LIBRARY_PATH=./External/FEXCore/Source/ ./FEXCore_Test/APITest`
+   - Need to disable early return on the loader when it fails to find a symbol.
+
+Lots of thing need to be fixed to work with this.
+
+- [ ] Provide a loader API to make people's lives easier
+   - Test branch has this loader in the `FCL::LoadFEXCoreSymbols` function.
+   - Every symbol then gets exposed under `FCL::` prefix
+- [ ] Fully qualify all types used in exported symbols.
+- [ ] Remove all uses of class inheritance across the file boundary
+   - [ ] SignalDelegator
+   - [ ] SyscallHandler
+   - [ ] CodeLoader?
+   - [ ] FEXCore::Config::Layer
+   - [ ] More?
+   - This needs to be done because vtable expose across dlopen boundary is a broken mess.
+   - APITest.cpp has a hack to expose `RegisterFrontendHostSignalHandler` through `FCL` which is a nightmare.
+ - [ ] Need to provide a helper to expose locally visible `jemalloc` symbols that use `FCL::jemalloc` symbols
+    -  APITest.cpp has a simple wrapper for this. This would need to be a in header that is included in all files that use `fexl::`
+    - Bit tricky
+ - [ ] Remove static initializers in FEXCore
+    - These can cause initialization problems in debug builds when symbols aren't fully loaded yet.
+    - [ ] Config.cpp
+    - [ ] More.
+ - [ ] Need some versioning so that if the loader tries to load a different versioned FEXCore, early exit. 
+ - [ ] Remove duplicated symbol names where the only difference is arguments?
+    - Might be able to represent these with some thought? Haven't thought hard about it yet.
+    - [ ] FEXCore::Context::Context::InvalidateGuestCodeRange
+    - [ ] FEXCore::FileLoading::LoadFile
+ - [ ] Work towards lessening symbol leakage. If a symbol isn't actually necessary outside of FEXCore, ensure it isn't leaked.
+ - [ ] Add unit tests that test each aspect of the API individually in as small of chunks as possible
+
+This is going to be quite a bit of work, so delaying it until absolutely necessary will be nice.
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