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[package] c-ares/1.17.1: fails to build on mingw

See original GitHub issue

Error is

In file included from /root/.conan/data/c-ares/1.17.1/_/_/build/3027a2bf0a64b8cf013441df42862a577f509d52/source_subfolder/src/lib/ares_setup.h:214,
                 from /root/.conan/data/c-ares/1.17.1/_/_/build/3027a2bf0a64b8cf013441df42862a577f509d52/source_subfolder/src/lib/ares_cancel.c:15:
/root/.conan/data/c-ares/1.17.1/_/_/build/3027a2bf0a64b8cf013441df42862a577f509d52/source_subfolder/src/lib/setup_once.h:113:8: error: redefinition of 'struct timeval'
  113 | struct timeval {
      |        ^~~~~~~
In file included from /opt/mingw-w64-build/x86_64-w64-mingw32/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/winsock2.h:52,
                 from /root/.conan/data/c-ares/1.17.1/_/_/build/3027a2bf0a64b8cf013441df42862a577f509d52/build_subfolder/source_subfolder/ares_build.h:26,
                 from /root/.conan/data/c-ares/1.17.1/_/_/build/3027a2bf0a64b8cf013441df42862a577f509d52/source_subfolder/src/lib/ares_setup.h:83,
                 from /root/.conan/data/c-ares/1.17.1/_/_/build/3027a2bf0a64b8cf013441df42862a577f509d52/source_subfolder/src/lib/ares_cancel.c:15:
/opt/mingw-w64-build/x86_64-w64-mingw32/x86_64-w64-mingw32/include/_timeval.h:10:8: note: originally defined here
   10 | struct timeval
      |        ^~~~~~~

The cause is that detection of HAVE_STRUCT_TIMEVAL fails due to

/root/.conan/data/mingw-w64/8.0.2/_/_/package/6c0af486d761293b534496741c71f331201fadf0/lib/gcc/x86_64-w64-mingw32/10.3.0/../../../../x86_64-w64-mingw32/bin/ld: cannot find -lAdvapi32

This was fixed upstream in https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/commit/28b2fa40bd6c4d54bcb182f6caa0af0e5759a138

Package and Environment Details (include every applicable attribute)

Package Name/Version: c-ares/1.17.1
Operating System+version: Linux Ubuntu 18.04
Compiler+version: MinGW 10

Conan profile (output of `conan profile show default` or `conan profile show <profile>` if custom profile is in use)

[settings]
os=Windows
arch=x86_64
compiler=gcc
compiler.version=10
compiler.libcxx=libstdc++11
compiler.threads=win32
compiler.exception=seh
build_type=RelWithDebInfo
[options]
mingw-w64:threads=win32
[conf]
[build_requires]
*: mingw-w64/8.0.2
[env]