Native client fopen_s problem

When building the native client (C connector) with MinGW, when try to run on Windows XP, we get the error:
The procedure entry point fopen_s could not be located in the dynamic link library msvcrt.dll

The problem is in https://github.com/MariaDB/connector-c/blob/master/libmariadb/my_fopen.c on line 39:
#ifdef _WIN32
if (fopen_s(&fd, FileName, type) == 0)
#else
if ((fd = fopen(FileName, type)) != 0)
#endif

Similar problem here:
https://codereview.chromium.org/12189010/
https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/9084