mingw: delete support for legacy mingw.org toolchain

Drop support for "old" / "legacy" / "classic" / "v1" / "mingw32" MinGW:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MinGW, https://osdn.net/projects/mingw/
Its homepage used to be http://mingw.org/ [no HTTPS], and broken now.
It supported the x86 CPU only and used a old Windows API header and
implib set, often causing issues. It also misses most modern Windows
features, offering old versions of both binutils and gcc (no llvm/clang
support). It was last updated 2 years ago.

curl now relies on toolchains based on the mingw-w64 project:
https://www.mingw-w64.org/  https://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw-w64/
https://www.msys2.org/  https://github.com/msys2/msys2
https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw
(Also available via Linux and macOS package managers.)

Closes #11625
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as soon as possible and explain to us why this is a problem for you and
how your use case cannot be satisfied properly using a workaround.
## mingw v1
We remove support for building curl with the original legacy mingw version 1
in September 2023.
During the deprecation period you can enable the support with the configure
option `--with-mingw1-deprecated`.
mingw version 1 is old and deprecated software. There are much better and
still support build environments to use to build curl and other software. For
example [MinGW-w64](https://www.mingw-w64.org/).
## space-separated `NOPROXY` patterns
When specifying patterns/domain names for curl that should *not* go through a
@ -46,3 +34,4 @@ curl will remove the support for space-separated names in July 2024.
- Support for systems without 64 bit data types
- NSS
- gskit
- mingw v1