This is killing me.
A few months ago someone released a great tool that would automatically download and compile the latest sources. Trouble is, I can’t for the life of me remember what it was called. I’ve tried searching the forums, but without the name, I haven’t had any luck.
Someone help me out here, thanks!
Nevermind. Found it.
Sounds cool, care to tell the rest what its name is? 
Whoops sorry! Should have realised someone else might want to know.
It’s called BEblender (Bleeding Edge). The thread is here:
http://blenderartists.org/forum/showthread.php?t=114603
Slight problem though, I’ve just tried it and it downloads and compiles Blender 2.45.14.
D’oh!
thnx.
that bug could probably be fixed w/ a few simple tweaks. I’ll check it out.
If you find a solution, let me know.
thanks.
it installed 2.44 over here… interesting…
Just read through the entire thread, and the project seems to be pretty much dead.
It’s a shame, because it was a wonderful little tool when it was working 
If you are on Linux or OSX, you can get daily automated builds at http://www.graphicall.org . You can find Windows builds there too.
I’m on windows.
I wanted to test something that has just been committed. Guess I’ll have to wait a while.
I’ll make a batch script for you then you just have to install somthings then just run the script after a lil prep.
follow this tut untill step 4 “compile!” http://mikepan.homeip.net/compileblender2 when you get to compile use my batch script
TortoiseProc.exe /command:update /path:"c:\build\blender" /notempfile /closeonend:1
TortoiseProc.exe /command:update /path:"c:\build\lib\windows" /notempfile /closeonend:1
cd c:\blender\blender
call scons BF_TOOLSET=mingw BF_BUILDDIR=c:\build\build_dir
cd c:\build\install\win32-mingw then go to c
call strip blender.exe
call strip blenderplayer.exe
pause
Copy that into notepad and save it as buildblender.bat then in windows explorer go to c:\build\install\win32-mingw\ and blender should be there. Also delate build_dir in c:\build when done.