1) I'll try to check which version of winpthreads is installed by msys2.
(rats, someone just "borrowed" the Surface Book Pro. Grrr.) :-)
2) that is almost identical to the wrapper I wrote, except I just used a
FILETIME struct and copied low/high as per
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library
Thanks a lot for the info, Martell!
No, I'm not in urgent need. I'm still at mingw-w64 with gcc 4.6.3
(rubenvb personal builds, although I built his source on my own for my
MacOS builds). I plan to update to a newer mingw-w64 sometime this
summer, or in early fall, so I'll wait. I'm expecting I'll