diff --git a/build-mingw b/build-mingw
index e0794979e..b8e9510c0 100644
--- a/build-mingw
+++ b/build-mingw
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ chmod +x vs2015/sdl/build-scripts/strip_fPIC.sh
 echo Compiling our internal SDL 1.x
 (cd vs2015/sdl && ./build-dosbox.sh) || exit 1
 
+# prefer to compile against our own copy of SDLnet 1.x
+echo Compiling our internal SDLnet 1.x
+(cd vs2015/sdlnet && ./build-dosbox.sh) || exit 1
+
 # MinGW cannot compile SDL_net, configure goes off trying to autogen
 # prefer to compile against our own copy of SDLnet 1.x
 #echo Compiling our internal SDLnet 1.x
diff --git a/build-mingw-lowend b/build-mingw-lowend
index cf93fc1ab..18b209636 100644
--- a/build-mingw-lowend
+++ b/build-mingw-lowend
@@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ chmod +x vs2015/sdl/build-scripts/strip_fPIC.sh
 echo Compiling our internal SDL 1.x
 (cd vs2015/sdl && ./build-dosbox.sh) || exit 1
 
-# MinGW cannot compile SDL_net, configure goes off trying to autogen
 # prefer to compile against our own copy of SDLnet 1.x
-#echo Compiling our internal SDLnet 1.x
-#(cd vs2015/sdlnet && ./build-dosbox.sh) || exit 1
+echo Compiling our internal SDLnet 1.x
+(cd vs2015/sdlnet && ./build-dosbox.sh) || exit 1
 
 # NTS: MinGW provides zlib for us
 if false; then
diff --git a/build-mingw-sdl2 b/build-mingw-sdl2
index fe7723fac..9d5129f5f 100644
--- a/build-mingw-sdl2
+++ b/build-mingw-sdl2
@@ -19,6 +19,10 @@ if test -z "$x" ; then
     (cd vs2015/sdl2 && ./build-dosbox.sh) || exit 1
 fi
 
+# prefer to compile against our own copy of SDLnet 1.x
+echo Compiling our internal SDLnet 1.x
+(cd vs2015/sdlnet && ./build-dosbox.sh) || exit 1
+
 # NTS: MinGW provides zlib for us
 if false; then
 	# perfer to compile against our own zlib
diff --git a/build-mingw-sdldraw b/build-mingw-sdldraw
index 74eb982c0..3ed3be178 100644
--- a/build-mingw-sdldraw
+++ b/build-mingw-sdldraw
@@ -16,10 +16,9 @@ chmod +x vs2015/sdl/build-scripts/strip_fPIC.sh
 echo Compiling our internal SDL 1.x
 (cd vs2015/sdl && ./build-dosbox.sh) || exit 1
 
-# MinGW cannot compile SDL_net, configure goes off trying to autogen
 # prefer to compile against our own copy of SDLnet 1.x
-#echo Compiling our internal SDLnet 1.x
-#(cd vs2015/sdlnet && ./build-dosbox.sh) || exit 1
+echo Compiling our internal SDLnet 1.x
+(cd vs2015/sdlnet && ./build-dosbox.sh) || exit 1
 
 # NTS: MinGW provides zlib for us
 if false; then