XP has been on life support for at least two years, to be honest. The mingw compiler upgrades started to cause weird issues on XP about the time I started working on the web UI-- it took me most of a night to track down what was actually happening.
As far as I understand XP support right now, I can summarize it quite effectively:
"XP will not be actively tested against and no significant debugging effort will be done. If it works, great, but we expect new compiles of MAME to stop running on XP before the end of 2016."
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Try checking the MAME manual at http://docs.mamedev.org
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