[unknown broken VisualStudio version] cabman built with GCC fails silently when creating vgafonts, was later fixed by upgrading to 19.14.26431

When building ReactOS with RosBE (I tried both version 2.1.5 and 2.1.6) it fails silently.

Output from RosBE is:

[3/3] Linking CXX executable cabman.exe[2/2] Generating vgafonts.cabFAILED: media/vgafonts/vgafonts.cabcmd.exe /C "cd /D D:\Dev\ReactOS\build-GCC-x86\media\vgafonts && D:\Dev\ReactOS\build-GCC-x86\host-tools\cabman.exe -M raw -S D:/Dev/ReactOS/build-GCC-x86/media/vgafonts/vgafonts.cab d:/Dev/ReactOS/reactos/media/vgafonts/437-8x8.bin d:/Dev/ReactOS/reactos/media/vgafonts/737-8x8.bin d:/Dev/ReactOS/reactos/media/vgafonts/775-8x8.bin d:/Dev/ReactOS/reactos/media/vgafonts/850-8x8.bin d:/Dev/ReactOS/reactos/media/vgafonts/852-8x8.bin d:/Dev/ReactOS/reactos/media/vgafonts/857-8x8.bin d:/Dev/ReactOS/reactos/media/vgafonts/862-8x8.bin d:/Dev/ReactOS/reactos/media/vgafonts/865-8x8.bin d:/Dev/ReactOS/reactos/media/vgafonts/866-8x8.bin d:/Dev/ReactOS/reactos/media/vgafonts/932-8x8.bin d:/Dev/ReactOS/reactos/media/vgafonts/28606-8x8.bin"ninja: build stopped: subcommand failed.

When replacing cabman.exe with one built from the Visual Studio command prompt it works.
The issue was introduced with a recent change:

Revision: ae391dd609c33cb1fcce2b6415a371d8a958cc66
Author: Dmitry Bagdanov <dimbo_job@mail.ru>
Date: 26.01.2018 16:44:14
Message:[CABMAN] Remove _WIN32 ifdef's

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Modified: sdk/tools/cabman/cabinet.cxx
Modified: sdk/tools/cabman/cabinet.h
Modified: sdk/tools/cabman/dfp.cxx
Modified: sdk/tools/cabman/dfp.hModified: sdk/tools/cabman/mszip.cxx

Reverting this commit and the following one (991d33c5d1a9bb3b21c860d830231886869ce09c) Fixes the issue.

Debugging revealed that cabman runs without failure and main() function returns 0 (i.e. success), but then something seems to go wrong in the exit code.