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Building Blender 2.5 on Windows

Here you will find the instructions to build Blender 2.5 from svn, based on the compiler (MinGW or Microsoft Visual C++) and the build system (SCons or CMake) of your choice.

Depending on which compiler and build system you've installed, read one of the following tutorial to build Blender.

Windows Quicktime Support Dropped
For Windows it has been decided that FFMPEG should be used for video, dropping QuickTime support. This means some image formats such as GIF and PSD will no longer load.
Note for editors
The above pages depend on svn, SCons, CMake, Troubleshooting. Editing these will affect the relevant pages in the list above.