This contains significant rebase / merge / testing work by Naut
<lbrynaut@protonmail.com>, Anthony Fieroni <bvbfan@abv.bg> and Brannon
King <countprimes@gmail.com>.
Add a patch that seems to be necessary for compatibilty of libevent
2.0.22 with recent mingw-w64 gcc versions (at least GCC 5.3.1 from Ubuntu
16.04).
Without this patch the Content-Length in the HTTP header ends up as
`Content-Length: zu`, causing communication between the RPC
client and server to break down. See discussion in #8653.
Source: https://sourceforge.net/p/levent/bugs/363/
Thanks to @sstone for the suggestion.
