Although much effort goes into the creation and maintenance of build systems for Blender, there are always ever returning problems. This section is meant to give concise and precise information on how to build Blender on different platforms.

The supported build systems are:

• make
• SCons
• CMake
• Visual Studio 6-7-8 project files

• Getting sources, SVN checkout and usage
  
• External Dependencies
• Compiling tools

Building Blender:

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/BuildingBlender

New developer info:

wiki.blender.org/index.php/BlenderDev/New_Dev_Info