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! Things you need
|MinGW and MSYS|You can find them at http://www.mingw.org/. Look for the Current MSYS and Current MinGW. Everything else can be ignored unless you know what you're doing.|
|libSDL for MinGW|You can find it at http://www.libsdl.org/.|
|The DirectX 7a headers and libraries for MinGW|You can find it at http://alleg.sourceforge.net/index.html|
|Zlib|You can find it at http://www.zlib.net/|
|Windows API libraries|http://www.mingw.org/download.shtml|
|FCEU source|Which I think you should have since you want to compile it! ;)|

! Things to do
# Install MinGW and MSYS.
#* Simply run the EXEs and follow the directions. Install MSYS AFTER MinGW
# Install the DirectX 7 headers and libraries and Windows API libraries
#* Simply unzip the archive to C:\MinGW. There will be an include folder and a lib folder. Do NOT extract to C:\MinGW\dx70_mgw. Or you can extract to some folder and copy the include and lib folder over the C:\MinGW directory. You should do the same thing with Windows API libraries.
# Install libSDL.
#* Start MSYS and put SDL-devel-1.x.x.mingw.tar.gz in your home directory. The path will be something like c:\msys\1.0\home\|username|
# Untar the archive
#* {{gzip -cd SDL-devel-1.x.x.mingw.tar.gz | tar x}}
# Now build libSDL
#* {{make install-sdl prefix=/mingw}}
# Install Zlib
#* Stay in MSYS, or reopen it if you closed it. Put the zlib-1.x.x.tar.gz archive in your MSYS home dir.
# Untar the archive
#* {{tar xvfz zlib-1.x.x.tar.gz}} or for bz2 {{tar xvfj zlib-1.x.x.tar.bz2}}
# Now change to zlib directory
#* {{cd zlib-1.x.x}}
# Configure and build zlib
#* {{./configure --prefix=/mingw make && make install}}
# Compile fceu
#* Stay in MSYS, or reopen it if you closed it. Extract fceu-0.98.12-blip.src.rar to c:\msys\1.0\home\|username| .
# Change to the fceu directory
#* {{cd fceu-0.98.12-blip.src}}
# Configure the Makefile
#* {{./configure --with-nativewin32}} or for opengl {{./configure --with-nativewin32 --with-opengl}}
# Build the resource file
#* {{windres -o src/res.o src/drivers/win/res.res}}
# Now make
#* {{make}}
# Strip the executable to make it small (this is optional)
#* Staying in MSYS, run the strip program.
#* {{strip -s src/fceu.exe}}
# After being "stripped", I suggest using upx, http://upx.sourceforge.net/, to compress the executable.
#* The program should be in your home directory under c:\msys\1.0\home\|username|\fceu-0.98.26\src\fceu.exe

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[user:feos]: For the sake of science, I tried compiling this on my Windows. It appears to heavily depend on old libs and compilers, and after solving that, it built a silent program for me. If anyone has success trying it out, please post here or PM me.

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