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There's probably someone more experienced than me that could help, but I just used the primary install file.

I recently compiled Mednafen 0.8 on Windows. This is what I did. Hopefully it's helpful to you.

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** Cygwin <http://www.cygwin.com/setup.exe> **
Installed Cygwin making sure to choose Devel > make

** MinGW <http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingw/files/> **
Ran installer, installed to C:\MinGW
Add C:\MinGW\bin to PATHS variable

** zlib <http://www.zlib.net/> **
Download zlib-1.2.4.tar.gz.

# sh ./configure --prefix=c:/mingw
# make install

** SDL <http://www.libsdl.org/download-1.2.php> **
Downloaded and extract SDL-devel-1.2.14-mingw32.tar.gz
Edit bin/sdl-config:

Change line
    prefix=/usr/local
to
    prefix=c:/MinGW

Edit lib/libSDL.la:

Change line
    libdir='/usr/lib'
to
    libdir='c:/MinGW/lib'

Copy SDL directory contents into C:/MinGW
(i.e. copy SDL/bin to C:/MinGW/bin, SDL/lib to C:/MinGW/lib, etc.)

** SDL_net <http://www.libsdl.org/projects/SDL_net/> **
Download SDL_net-1.2.7.tar.gz
Edit configure:

Change line
    SDL_VERSION=1.2.4
to current SDL version, e.g.
    SDL_VERSION=1.2.14

# CC=mingw32-gcc CXX=mingw32-g++ sh ./configure --prefix=c:/MinGW --host=mingw32 --enable-shared --disable-static
# mingw32-make
# mingw32-make install

** libiconv <http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libiconv/> **
Download libiconv-1.13.1.tar.gz

# CC=mingw32-gcc CXX=mingw32-g++ sh ./configure --prefix=c:/MinGW --host=mingw32 --enable-shared --disable-static
# make
# make install

** libcdio <http://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/libcdio/> **
Download libcdio-0.82.tar.gz

# CFLAGS="-DS_IWGRP=00020 -DS_IWOTH=00002 -DS_IFLNK=0120000 -DS_IFSOCK=0140000 -DS_ISUID=0004000 -DS_ISGID=0002000 -DS_ISVTX=0001000 -DS_IRGRP=00040 -DS_IXGRP=00010 -DS_IROTH=00004 -DS_IXOTH=00001 -O2 -Ic:/mingw/install/fake-include" CC=mingw32-gcc CXX=mingw32-g++ sh ./configure --prefix=c:/MinGW --host=mingw32 --enable-shared --disable-static --without-cd-drive --without-cd-info --without-cd-paranoia --without-cdda-player --without-cd-read--without-iso-info --without-iso-read
# mingw32-make
# mingw32-make install

** libogg <http://xiph.org/downloads/> **
Download libogg-1.2.0.tar.gz
Edit configure:

Add lines
    SIZE16="short";
    USIZE16="unsigned short";
    SIZE32="int";
    USIZE32="unsigned int";
    SIZE64="long long";
before
    if test -z "$SIZE16"; then

# sh ./configure --prefix=c:/MinGW --host=mingw32 --enable-shared --disable-static
# mingw32-make
# mingw32-make install

** libvorbis <http://xiph.org/downloads/> **
Download libvorbis-1.3.1.tar.gz

# sh ./configure --prefix=c:/MinGW --host=mingw32 --enable-shared --disable-static
# mingw32-make
# mingw32-make install

** flac <http://xiph.org/downloads/> **
Download flac-1.2.1.tar.gz

# sh ./configure --prefix=c:/MinGW --host=mingw32 --enable-shared --disable-static
# mingw32-make
# mingw32-make install

** libsndfile <http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/> **
Download libsndfile-1.0.21.tar.gz

# PKG_CONFIG=/usr/bin/pkg-config PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR=c:/MinGW/lib/pkgconfig CC=mingw32-gcc CXX=mingw32-g++ ./configure --prefix=c:/MinGW --host=mingw32 --enable-shared --disable-static --disable-alsa --disable-sqlite --disable-octave
# PATH=c:/MinGW/bin:c:/MinGW/mingw32/bin:$PATH make
# PATH=c:/MinGW/bin:c:/MinGW/mingw32/bin:$PATH mingw32-make install

** dx80_mgw <http://alleg.sourceforge.net/wip.html> **
Download dx80_mgw.zip
Extract contents to c:/MinGW

** Mednafen **

# sh ./configure --prefix=c:/MinGW --host=mingw32 --enable-shared --disable-static
# mingw32-make
# mingw32-make install
# cp c:/MinGW/bin/mednafen.exe .

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