Fix most urgent issues in 2023 #186

Job	Run time
Windows MinGW build (shared, x64)	2m 58s
Windows MSVC build (Release, Win64)	3m 10s
Windows MinGW build (static, x64)	3m 6s
ubuntu-16.04 BUILD=static CC=gcc-4.7 CXX=g++-4.7 AUTOTOOLS=no	1s
Windows MSVC build (Debug, Win64)	3m 57s
Windows MinGW build (shared, x86)	5m 25s
ubuntu-16.04 BUILD=static CC=gcc-4.8 CXX=g++-4.8 AUTOTOOLS=no	1s
Windows MSVC build (Release, Win32)	4m 0s
Windows MinGW build (static, x86)	4m 0s
ubuntu-16.04 BUILD=static CC=gcc-5 CXX=g++-5 AUTOTOOLS=no	1s
Windows MSVC build (Debug, Win32)	4m 26s
ubuntu-16.04 BUILD=static CC=gcc-6 CXX=g++-6 AUTOTOOLS=no	1s
ubuntu-latest BUILD=static CC=gcc-7 CXX=g++-7 AUTOTOOLS=no	15s
ubuntu-latest BUILD=shared CC=gcc CXX=g++ AUTOTOOLS=yes	24s
ubuntu-latest BUILD=static CC=gcc CXX=g++ AUTOTOOLS=yes	25s
ubuntu-latest BUILD=shared CC=gcc CXX=g++ AUTOTOOLS=no	47s
ubuntu-latest BUILD=static CC=gcc CXX=g++ AUTOTOOLS=no	43s
ubuntu-latest BUILD=shared CC=clang CXX=clang++ AUTOTOOLS=yes	26s
ubuntu-latest BUILD=static CC=clang CXX=clang++ AUTOTOOLS=yes	38s
ubuntu-latest BUILD=shared CC=clang CXX=clang++ AUTOTOOLS=no	1m 19s
ubuntu-latest BUILD=static CC=clang CXX=clang++ AUTOTOOLS=no	1m 15s
macOS-latest BUILD=shared CC=clang CXX=clang++ AUTOTOOLS=yes	1m 11s
macOS-latest BUILD=static CC=clang CXX=clang++ AUTOTOOLS=yes	1m 43s
macOS-latest BUILD=shared CC=clang CXX=clang++ AUTOTOOLS=no	1m 47s
macOS-latest BUILD=static CC=clang CXX=clang++ AUTOTOOLS=no	1m 43s
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