Correction: copysign has been supported by windows several toolchains for a very long time, including MSVC6, MinGW, LCC-Win32, (no released watcom versions though, but that's of no concern.) Patch from Ozkan Sezer
diff --git a/include/SDL_config_windows.h b/include/SDL_config_windows.h
index 49d6878..57ac53d 100644
--- a/include/SDL_config_windows.h
+++ b/include/SDL_config_windows.h
@@ -142,12 +142,12 @@ typedef unsigned int uintptr_t;
#define HAVE_SQRTF 1
#define HAVE_TAN 1
#define HAVE_TANF 1
+#define HAVE_COPYSIGN 1
#if defined(_MSC_VER)
/* These functions were added with the VC++ 2013 C runtime library */
#if _MSC_VER >= 1800
#define HAVE_STRTOLL 1
#define HAVE_VSSCANF 1
-#define HAVE_COPYSIGN 1
#define HAVE_SCALBN 1
#endif
/* This function is available with at least the VC++ 2008 C runtime library */