diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index e921edba..925ef9bc 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -309,6 +309,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "marker_adapter"
 version = "0.1.0"
 dependencies = [
+ "cfg-if",
  "libloading",
  "marker_api",
 ]
diff --git a/marker_adapter/Cargo.toml b/marker_adapter/Cargo.toml
index a7308f1f..4274dda2 100644
--- a/marker_adapter/Cargo.toml
+++ b/marker_adapter/Cargo.toml
@@ -10,3 +10,4 @@ license = "MIT OR Apache-2.0"
 marker_api = { path = "../marker_api" }
 
 libloading = "0.7.3"
+cfg-if = "1.0.0"
diff --git a/marker_adapter/src/context.rs b/marker_adapter/src/context.rs
index 5db201b9..dd0f7704 100644
--- a/marker_adapter/src/context.rs
+++ b/marker_adapter/src/context.rs
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ use marker_api::{
 /// change and calling functions on them would require a stable ABI which Rust
 /// doesn't provide.
 ///
-/// In this case, the `DriverContextWrapper` will be passed as a `*const ()`
+/// In this case, the [`DriverContextWrapper`] will be passed as a `*const ()`
 /// pointer to [`DriverCallbacks`] which will do nothing with this data other
 /// than giving it back to functions declared in this module. Since the `&dyn`
 /// object is created, only used here and everything is compiled during the same
diff --git a/marker_adapter/src/loader.rs b/marker_adapter/src/loader.rs
index 3b37ccc5..d0a284b2 100644
--- a/marker_adapter/src/loader.rs
+++ b/marker_adapter/src/loader.rs
@@ -1,9 +1,46 @@
+use cfg_if::cfg_if;
 use libloading::Library;
 
 use marker_api::context::AstContext;
 use marker_api::lint::Lint;
 use marker_api::LintPass;
 
+use std::ffi::{OsStr, OsString};
+
+/// Splits [`OsStr`] by an ascii character
+fn split_os_str(s: &OsStr, c: u8) -> Vec<OsString> {
+    cfg_if! {
+        if #[cfg(unix)] {
+            unix_split_os_str(s, c)
+        } else if #[cfg(windows)] {
+            windows_split_os_str(s, c)
+        } else {
+            unimplemented!("`split_os_str` currently works only on unix and windows")
+        }
+    }
+}
+
+#[cfg(unix)]
+#[doc(hidden)]
+fn unix_split_os_str(s: &OsStr, c: u8) -> Vec<OsString> {
+    use std::os::unix::ffi::OsStrExt;
+
+    s.as_bytes()
+        .split(|byte| *byte == c)
+        .map(|bytes| OsStr::from_bytes(bytes).into())
+        .collect()
+}
+
+#[cfg(windows)]
+#[doc(hidden)]
+fn windows_split_os_str(s: &OsStr, c: u8) -> Vec<OsString> {
+    use std::os::windows::ffi::{OsStrExt, OsStringExt};
+
+    let bytes: Vec<u16> = s.encode_wide().collect();
+
+    bytes.split(|v| *v == u16::from(c)).map(OsString::from_wide).collect()
+}
+
 /// This struct loads external lint crates into memory and provides a safe API
 /// to call the respective methods on all of them.
 #[derive(Default)]
@@ -15,17 +52,16 @@ impl<'ast> LintCrateRegistry<'ast> {
     /// # Errors
     /// This can return errors if the library couldn't be found or if the
     /// required symbols weren't provided.
-    fn load_external_lib(&mut self, lib_path: &str) -> Result<(), LoadingError> {
+    fn load_external_lib(lib_path: &OsStr) -> Result<LoadedLintCrate<'ast>, LoadingError> {
         let lib: &'static Library = Box::leak(Box::new(
             unsafe { Library::new(lib_path) }.map_err(|_| LoadingError::FileNotFound)?,
         ));
 
         let pass = LoadedLintCrate::try_from_lib(lib)?;
 
-        self.passes.push(pass);
         // FIXME: Create issue for lifetimes and fix droping and pointer decl stuff
 
-        Ok(())
+        Ok(pass)
     }
 
     /// # Panics
@@ -34,12 +70,21 @@ impl<'ast> LintCrateRegistry<'ast> {
     pub fn new_from_env() -> Self {
         let mut new_self = Self::default();
 
-        if let Ok(lint_crates_lst) = std::env::var("MARKER_LINT_CRATES") {
-            for lint_crate in lint_crates_lst.split(';') {
-                if let Err(err) = new_self.load_external_lib(lint_crate) {
-                    panic!("Unable to load `{lint_crate}`, reason: {err:?}");
-                }
+        let Some((_, lint_crates_lst)) = std::env::vars_os().find(|(name, _val)| name == "MARKER_LINT_CRATES") else {
+            panic!("Adapter tried to find `MARKER_LINT_CRATES` env variable, but it was not present");
+        };
+
+        for lib in split_os_str(&lint_crates_lst, b';') {
+            if lib.is_empty() {
+                continue;
             }
+
+            let lib = match Self::load_external_lib(&lib) {
+                Ok(v) => v,
+                Err(err) => panic!("Unable to load `{}`, reason: {err:?}", lib.to_string_lossy()),
+            };
+
+            new_self.passes.push(lib);
         }
 
         new_self
@@ -113,7 +158,7 @@ macro_rules! gen_LoadedLintCrate {
                 }
 
                 let set_ast_context = unsafe {
-                    lib.get::<for<'ast> unsafe extern "C" fn(&'ast AstContext<'ast>) -> ()>(b"set_ast_context\0")
+                    lib.get::<for<'ast> unsafe extern "C" fn(&'ast AstContext<'ast>)>(b"set_ast_context\0")
                         .map_err(|_| LoadingError::MissingLintDeclaration)?
                 };
 
@@ -144,7 +189,7 @@ macro_rules! gen_LoadedLintCrate {
 
             // safe wrapper to external functions
             $(
-                fn $fn_name<'ast>(& $($mut_)* self $(, $arg_name: $arg_ty)*) -> $ret_ty {
+                fn $fn_name<'ast>(&self $(, $arg_name: $arg_ty)*) -> $ret_ty {
                     unsafe {
                         (self.$fn_name)($($arg_name,)*)
                     }