Hi, I’ve pretty much given up with scons, so I was wondering if anyone knew how to build blender with make for windows XP home edition? thanks
Yes I am shamelessly bumping this thread to the new posts section, because I’m getting kind of desperate, sorry for being so bad!
i was always under the impression that scons is far superior to make and that ‘make’ support on WinXp is horrible at best.
Have you tried this compiling blenderguide?
Yes, I’ve tried that and the scons refactoring, I’d still like to know how to do it with scons, but I got it to work finally with cygwin make. Scons was doing a typo, saying windres --include-dirsource/icons -i … it left out the ‘=’ in windres --include-dir=source/icons -i … I think that it was a typo calling windres somewhere in the scons script files, but I couldn’t find it anywhere. Glad I got it with cygwin though! thanks for someone finally responding to this thread
Download and install the MingW32 Msys system.
I had it working a few months ago, but something “broke” and I haven’t had the time/energy/inclination to fix it 
Maybe I’ll take another look at it.
Mpan3:
My experience (when it was working anyway), was that Make was much easier than scons, as scons is yet another system in itself to setup / configure … etc. etc, and I could not never get it to work
mike, guess i am just lucky then. I never had any problem with scons and found the config file to be much cleaner and intuitive to work with. While we are at it, why not try the … MSVC build environment?
warning: large download, but on intel processors, the build is faster than produced by gcc.
edit: here is a MAKE tutorial, not sure if you have seen it before dreblen
try geneomes CMake MSVS tutorial (http://www.geneome.net/index.php/blender-tutorials/building-blender-with-msvc-using-cmake/), theres a couple of downloads and you need visual studio or just Microsoft Visual C++ Express Edition which is free!
Mike_S: I’m downloading the MSYS exe now
mpan3: I can’t download anything that big (dial-up), the make tutorial is what I followed to build with cygwin, though mine was on blender.org
blendermf: that would require downloading the same (big) files, as it’s the same tut, only with cmake.
Okay, I have installed msys to c:\msys, I guess it’s like cygwin, but I don’t understand how it helps with scons, unless you meant it to be used instead of cygwin?
Well, you posted about getting it to work with cygwin at the same time that I was suggesting msys (for make). I didn’t see your post. If you have it working with cygwin, I’d suggest you just stick with that. Getting a build environemnt setup is a pain, so if you have it working then leave it alone 
Mike
oh I wasn’t sure if you were on dialup, I downloaded Microsoft Visual Studio C++ Express Edition when I was on dialup, but it took me like a whole weekend, i guess I have a lot of patients, actually I downloaded everything i needed on dialup, but you probably don’t want to wait that long.
just as a heads up, if you want to use MSVC Express edition (free), you’ll also need the platfrom SDK and the DX9 SDK, which will add up to be about 600mb. But you will only use a small portion of hte DX9 SDK, so maybe ask somebody to send the files to you .