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.
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?
Moved from “General Forums > Blender and CG Discussions” to “Support > Technical Support”
what about looking in official documentation? 
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Dev:Contents
and yes msvc is what you suggest…