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Is the source code buildable, or is it mainly for documentation purposes? I’m guessing the build system and tool chains required for building windows are massiv

Is the source code buildable, or is it mainly for documentation purposes? I’m guessing the build system and tool chains required for building windows are massively complex. Are these distributed with the windows source code as well? Also I’m guessing that there are a lot of other proprietary vendor-supplied pieces that get built with Windows. What happens if these are not available?

tozeur 6y ago
Internal builds barely work with millions of dollars and man power invested. I can’t imagine anyone else outside of Msft being able to build Windows lol
- ohiovr 6y ago
  You're going to love this https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/09/30/1843232/windows-xp-leak-confirmed-after-user-compiles-the-leaked-code-into-a-working-os#comments https://tech.slashdot.org/story/20/09/30/1843232/windows-xp-...