I would like to compile and build PokerTH but I am not sure where to begin.

I have read the forum and Wiki but still feel a little lost. I have a Windows XP Pro based system with Visual Studio Express 2005 and 2008, as well as Cygwin and an Apache22 Web development environment (built using the free Web.Developer Server Suite Community Edition from http://sourceforge.net/projects/webdeveloper/ )

I noticed that Visual C++ is no longer supported and I am not quite sure of what is needed to use MinGW.