How do you build the Blender source code? I want to build the source code and hopefully step through the code.

I downloaded blinder-2.63.tar and I did not find a "readme" file. [IMG]http://i67.photobucket.com/albums/h292/Athono/noreadme.png[/IMG]

I found this guide for compiling Blender: http://www.blender.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1173

Windows

•  Building Blender on Windows with MSVC (2003/10/11)  http://home.pacbell.net/c_keith/projects/blender/bootstrap.html
•  Compiling Blender 2.26 on Windows XP with MSVC 6 and Python 2.22  http://www.cise.ufl.edu/~fishwick/blender/make.txt
•  Help compiling under Windows using Cygwin  http://www.blender.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=phpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=692
•  Compiling in Windows using free tools (mingw-gcc)  http://projects.blender.org/viewcvs/viewcvs.cgi/blender/doc/README.windows-gcc?cvsroot=bf-blender  (click 'view')

The first link interests me since MSVC must mean "Microsoft Visual C" (right ?).  But that is a broken link. Now what?

The Blender Wiki provides detailed instructions for building Blender on Specific operating systems. 

Start Here: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Doc/Building_Blender

I used to build myself but found it easier just to download the daily builds.