diff -upr ncurses-5.9.old/include/curses.tail ncurses-5.9/include/curses.tail
--- ncurses-5.9.old/include/curses.tail	2014-03-19 18:30:52 +0000
+++ ncurses-5.9/include/curses.tail	2014-03-19 18:31:25 +0000
@@ -142,6 +142,11 @@ extern NCURSES_EXPORT(char *) _traceccha
 #define _tracech_t		_tracechtype
 #define _tracech_t2		_tracechtype2
 #endif
+
+#if defined(__MINGW32__)
+#undef trace
+#endif
+
 extern NCURSES_EXPORT(char *) _tracemouse (const MEVENT *);
 extern NCURSES_EXPORT(void) trace (const unsigned int);