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Add support for .mod, .s3m, .xm and .it formats

Mors Mortiumrequested to merge
morsmortium/sdl2_mixer:mod_s3m_xm_it_format_support into main

These formats worked at one point, but then something changed in how the package got built. This not only influences SDL2, but python-pygame, and that in turn pysolfc. The packaged version of pysolfc does not need these formats, but pysolfc has a separate package, pysol-music which contains music for the game, in 3 of the 4 formats, listed here. (https://github.com/shlomif/pysol-music) This package is not in official repos, I have packaged it in the AUR, which as I said worked in the past, but not anymore. (https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/pysolfc-music)

I have tested that the changes work, with the following python script, using python-pygame:

import pygame.mixer
import pygame.mixer_music
import time

pygame.mixer.pre_init(44100, -16, 2, 1024*1)
pygame.mixer.init()

pygame.mixer_music.load("./Astral_Dreams.it")
pygame.mixer_music.set_volume(1)
pygame.mixer_music.play()
while pygame.mixer_music and pygame.mixer_music.get_busy():
    time.sleep(0.2)

The music files from pysol-music can be tested. I also tested that in pysolfc itself they can be played, after the rebuilt sdl2_mixer is installed. I have made multiple issues in the past: https://github.com/pygame/pygame/issues/4365 https://github.com/shlomif/PySolFC/issues/396

Then saw that someone referenced the issue in msys2 and it also got fixed: https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/issues/22517 https://github.com/msys2/MINGW-packages/pull/22521

The change was lifted from there.

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