…008 to VS2010."

This commit is a partial backport of 401f9f3. It was
originally designed to work with python-cmake-buildsystem.

The following modules have NOT been backported:

* Tools/msi
* Tools/buildbot
* PCBuild

…ort VC 14.0 (Visual Studio 2015), which will be used for the official 3.5 release."

This commit is a partial backport of 65e4cb1. It was
originally designed to work with python-cmake-buildsystem.

This patch do not backport the define "timezone" as "_timezone" as it was done in Python 3.x.
Keeping "timezone" is required in Python 2.7.x to avoid the following build issue
``error C2032: '__timezone': function cannot be member of struct '__timeb64'``
associated with `sys/timeb.h`. The need for `sys/timeb.h` was removed in Python 3.x in 6fc4ade and 0011124
but is still used in Python 2.7.x.

The following modules have NOT been backported:

* Lib/distutils/sysconfig
* Modules/socketmodule.c .... : Not required since changes related to WSA have been introduced in Python 3.x (see 6b4883d)
* Tools/buildbot
* PCBuild

…ion with calling _set_thread_local_invalid_parameter_handler on every thread."

This commit is a partial backport of d81431f. It was
originally designed to work with python-cmake-buildsystem.

Implementation of "_PyVerify_fd" in "Python/fileutils.c" found only in
Python 3.x has been copied into "Modules/posixmodule.c"

The following modules have NOT been backported:

* PCbuild

This commit integrates changes originally added to the project
as python-cmake-buildsystem/python-cmake-buildsystem@18d49757e (Mingw32 support, and add cmake
options for disabling)

Note that in  more recent version of Python, this patch is obsoleted
by the following commits:

  See 589f89e2a (introduced in 3.3)
      Removed a Windows 9x trick used before LoadLibraryExW.
      Windows 9x has long been unsupported and the result of GetFullPathName was not even
      being used in the first place.

  See 05f2d84ca (introduced in 3.9)
      bpo-28269: Replace strcasecmp with system function _stricmp. (GH-13095)

Co-authored-by: David Sansome <me@davidsansome.com>

This commit integrates changes originally added to the project
as python-cmake-buildsystem/python-cmake-buildsystem@18d49757e (Mingw32 support, and add
cmake options for disabling)

Note that in more recent version of Python, this patch is obsoleted
by the following commits:

- See 7faf70512 (introduced in 3.4)
      Issue #17591: Use lowercase filenames when including Windows header files.

Co-authored-by: David Sansome <me@davidsansome.com>

This commit integrates changes originally added to the project
as python-cmake-buildsystem/python-cmake-buildsystem@18de7ac65 (Fix the nt module)
and python-cmake-buildsystem/python-cmake-buildsystem@a2606f959 (config-mingw: Add
(i686|x86_64)-w64-mingw32 toolchain support from MXE)

Co-authored-by: David Sansome <me@davidsansome.com>

This commit integrates changes originally added to the project
as python-cmake-buildsystem/python-cmake-buildsystem@9fdd1408b (Build the ctypes extension
differently on Windows, add a patch to bring in the latest version
of libffi) and python-cmake-buildsystem/python-cmake-buildsystem@025343fba (Add a missing
patch to ctypes for windows)

Co-authored-by: David Sansome <me@davidsansome.com>