Ive tried to follow the extemely dated instrutions found here 
http://www.mame.net/compilewin.html but filenames,paths, everything is different now... 
plus,to add isult to injury im running XP-home-sp2,and that tutorial is tailored for 98,98se. 
could someone be humble enough to lay out a similar,simple walkthrough so that i can learn how to compile my own binaries without having to beg someone to do it for me.. 
teach a man to fish....you know.. 
i know my way around a dos prompt,and im not technically challenged, im just uninformed... 
in turn,ill return the favor and pass it on to the next person i see in my perdicament.. 
Thank you all