diff -ur pstoedit-3.62.orig/src/cppcomp.h pstoedit-3.62/src/cppcomp.h
--- pstoedit-3.62.orig/src/cppcomp.h	2014-07-15 20:58:13.000000000 -0400
+++ pstoedit-3.62/src/cppcomp.h	2014-07-15 21:00:16.000000000 -0400
@@ -264,6 +264,13 @@
 
 USESTD
 
+#ifdef __MINGW32__
+#include <_mingw.h>
+#ifdef MINGW_HAS_SECURE_API
+#undef MINGW_HAS_SECURE_API
+#endif  // MINGW_HAS_SECURE_API
+#endif  // __MINGW32__
+
 // approach for emulation:
 // * guarantee that the result string ends with \n (array[size-1] = 0)
 // * if the above condition cannot be achieved - exit with error message