diff --git a/compat/mingw.c b/compat/mingw.c
index 8aaccc3e74..d7bcd6f3cc 100644
--- a/compat/mingw.c
+++ b/compat/mingw.c
@@ -274,7 +274,6 @@ int mingw_core_config(const char *var, const char *value, void *cb)
 }
 
 static DWORD symlink_file_flags = 0, symlink_directory_flags = 1;
-DECLARE_PROC_ADDR(kernel32.dll, BOOLEAN, CreateSymbolicLinkW, LPCWSTR, LPCWSTR, DWORD);
 
 enum phantom_symlink_result {
 	PHANTOM_SYMLINK_RETRY,
@@ -2722,7 +2721,7 @@ int symlink(const char *target, const char *link)
 	int len;
 
 	/* fail if symlinks are disabled or API is not supported (WinXP) */
-	if (!has_symlinks || !INIT_PROC_ADDR(CreateSymbolicLinkW)) {
+	if (!has_symlinks) {
 		errno = ENOSYS;
 		return -1;
 	}
diff --git a/config.mak.uname b/config.mak.uname
index e98c10ce1e..adeca5b9fd 100644
--- a/config.mak.uname
+++ b/config.mak.uname
@@ -407,8 +407,6 @@ ifeq ($(uname_S),Windows)
 	NO_GETTEXT = YesPlease
 	NO_PYTHON = YesPlease
 	ETAGS_TARGET = ETAGS
-	NO_INET_PTON = YesPlease
-	NO_INET_NTOP = YesPlease
 	NO_POSIX_GOODIES = UnfortunatelyYes
 	NATIVE_CRLF = YesPlease
 	DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT = html
@@ -577,8 +575,6 @@ ifneq (,$(findstring MINGW,$(uname_S)))
 	NO_REGEX = YesPlease
 	NO_PYTHON = YesPlease
 	ETAGS_TARGET = ETAGS
-	NO_INET_PTON = YesPlease
-	NO_INET_NTOP = YesPlease
 	NO_POSIX_GOODIES = UnfortunatelyYes
 	DEFAULT_HELP_FORMAT = html
 	COMPAT_CFLAGS += -DNOGDI -Icompat -Icompat/win32
diff --git a/git-compat-util.h b/git-compat-util.h
index 4f4fd312ab..54672f7ca5 100644
--- a/git-compat-util.h
+++ b/git-compat-util.h
@@ -156,7 +156,7 @@
 
 #if defined(WIN32) && !defined(__CYGWIN__) /* Both MinGW and MSVC */
 # if !defined(_WIN32_WINNT)
-#  define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0502
+#  define _WIN32_WINNT 0x0600
 # endif
 #define WIN32_LEAN_AND_MEAN  /* stops windows.h including winsock.h */
 #include <winsock2.h>