gio-du: Improve test program on Windows

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 Patches should be in unified diff form. (The -up option to GNU diff.)
 
+Notes about GLib 2.36
+=====================
+
+* It is no longer necessary to call g_type_init().  If you are
+  loading GLib as a dynamic module, you should be careful to avoid
+  unloading it, then subsequently loading it again.  This never
+  really worked before, but it is now explicitly undefined behavior.
+  Note that if g_type_init() was the only explicit use of a GObject
+  API and you are using linker flags such as --no-add-needed, then
+  you may have to artificially use some GObject call to keep the
+  linker from optimizing away -lgobject. We recommend to use
+  g_type_ensure (G_TYPE_OBJECT) for this purpose.
+
+* This release contains an incompatible change to the g_get_home_dir()
+  function.  Previously, this function would effectively ignore the HOME
+  environment variable and always return the value from /etc/password.
+  As of this version, the HOME variable is used if it is set and the
+  value from /etc/passwd is only used as a fallback.
+
+* The 'flowinfo' and 'scope_id' fields of GInetSocketAddress
+  (introduced in GLib 2.32) have been fixed to be in host byte order
+  rather than network byte order. This is an incompatible change, but
+  the previous behavior was clearly broken, so it seems unlikely that
+  anyone was using it.
+
 Notes about GLib 2.34
 =====================