This following patch was originally found at the debian mingw-w64 team's
mingw-w64 repo located here:
https://salsa.debian.org/mingw-w64-team/mingw-w64.git

Invoke the following in the aforementioned repo to see the original patch:

  $ git show 4974e2c:debian/patches/reproducible-gendef.patch

Description: Drop __DATE__ from gendef
Author: Stephen Kitt <skitt@debian.org>

This allows gendef to be built reproducibly.

--- a/mingw-w64-tools/gendef/src/gendef.c
+++ b/mingw-w64-tools/gendef/src/gendef.c
@@ -196,7 +196,6 @@
                    "  By default, the output files are named after their DLL counterparts\n"
                    "  gendef MYDLL.DLL     Produces MYDLL.def\n"
                    "  gendef - MYDLL.DLL   Prints the exports to stdout\n");
-  fprintf (stderr, "\nBuilt on %s\n", __DATE__);
   fprintf (stderr, "\nReport bugs to <mingw-w64-public@lists.sourceforge.net>\n");
   exit (0);
 }
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