Allow setting _WIN32_WINNT for targetting older Windows API versions #36
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The default version has been changed to Windows 10 in mingw-w64 8.0.1 and newer (mirror/mingw-w64@f3c53a5) and was Windows Server 2003 before that.
This patch allows optionally building a toolchain that can target older versions of Windows.
The article Update WINVER and _WIN32_WINNT on Microsoft Learn has some details on the possible values.
Building the toolchain for an older version of Windows will still make the resulting binaries work on newer versions, but new APIs introduced after that version won't be used.