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There two options Microsoft Visual Studio 2015/2017 or MSYS2 both required libuv build and cmake.

You can use prebuilt dependencies for your builds https://github.com/xmrig/xmrig-deps/releases.
If you just want change file icon or description don't need to compile, you can use tools like Resource Hacker.
For 32 bit better choice use MSYS2 significantly better performance, anyway 64 bit builds always faster.

Use mingw64.exe shell. Necessary MSYS2 packages:

pacman -Sy
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
pacman -S make
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-cmake
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config

CMake build:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G "Unix Makefiles" -DXMRIG_DEPS=c:/xmrig-deps/gcc/x64
make

Use mingw32.exe shell. Necessary MSYS2 packages:

pacman -Sy
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-gcc
pacman -S make
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-cmake
pacman -S mingw-w64-i686-pkg-config

CMake build:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G "Unix Makefiles" -DXMRIG_DEPS=c:/xmrig-deps/gcc/x86
make

Go to directory with source, then:

mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -G "Visual Studio 15 2017 Win64" -DXMRIG_DEPS=c:\xmrig-deps\msvc2017\x64

It will create Visual Studio Solution file xmrig.sln. Don't forget change Debug to Release build.

Additional CMake options