Windows Server 2003 (NT 5.2 / 3790) guide

Build guide tested under Windows XP & Windows 7 x86, other OS's results may vary.

Preparing Environment

Extract source tree to a folder on a drive root, in this guide we will assume C:\NT (if you wish for your binaries to match RTM as closely as possible, use D:\srv03rtm)
Unset Read-only on extracted directory (including subfolders and files)
Copy over files from this ZIP (mirror) into source tree, overwriting existing files as necessary
Run the prebuild.bat inside the source folder (right click & Run as Admin if your OS uses UAC)
Create desktop shortcut for %windir%\system32\cmd.exe /k C:\NT\tools\razzle.cmd free offline (see below for explanation) and change Start in to C:\NT
Open razzle window using shortcut you created (run shortcut as admin if your OS uses UAC!)

Performs clean rebuild of all components:

Builds only components that have changed since last clean build:

Mount RTM CD and execute tools\missing.cmd (optionally, perform this step for every SKU)
tools\postbuild.cmd (use -sku:{sku} if you want to process only specific one, expect filechk errors if you ignore this and have skipped on missing.cmd optional step)

Updates test-signing certificates with newer unexpired ones
Uses updated midl.exe/midlc.exe from Win2003 SP1 DDK, fixes olepro32.dll errors
Includes missing directui.lib from XP source tree
Reordered dirs file to ensure that conlibk.lib is built before it gets used
Adds pre-compiled ole16 files & updated ole16 build tools, as newer OS's such as Win7 have problems compiling it (pre-compiled files will be deleted by prebuild.bat if your OS can build them fine)
Includes prebuild.bat that can handle installing driver.pfx keys, fixing file attributes & removing pre-compiled files

Can be enabled or disabled by commenting or uncommenting timebomb.cmd entry in \tools\postbuildscripts\pbuild.dat
If enabled, time can be adjusted by editing \tools\postbuildscripts\timebomb.cmd

You can modify your razzle shortcut (or execute command manually inside C:\NT) to include (or remove) additional argument(s):

free - build 'free' bits (production, ommiting it will generated checked bits)
CkhKernel - build 'checked' (testing) kernel/hal/ntdll when building 'free' bits
no_opts - disable binary optimization (useful for debugging, but will most likely fail a full build, some code can't be built without optimization)
verbose - enable verbose execution of the build process
binaries_dir <basepath> - specifies custom output directory (default is binaries, the suffix added after . is non-customizable)

Other options are not described here, see razzle.cmd /? for details.

Use -sku:{sku} if you want to process only specific one

Most components can be built seperately. For example, if you wish to rebuild ntos component, perform these steps:

Generally postbuild.cmd is clever enough to include your changes properly without needing fresh build as it uses bindiff to find differences.

Version information is stored in \public\sdk\inc\ntverp.h

You can also use nmake set_builddate set_buildnum set_buildname -f makefil0 to generate new build name quickly.

5.2.3790.0.srv03_rtm.030324-2048_x86fre_server-standard_retail_en-us-NRMSFPP_EN.iso (SHA1: A600409482A5678EF6AF2B26D3576D6D9894178D)
5.2.3790.0.srv03_rtm.030324-2048_x86fre_server-datacenter_retail_en-us-NRMDOEM_EN.iso (SHA1: E2B47A7CE45C6C6305594CEE4C1B64894805AAF4)
5.2.3790.0.srv03_rtm.030324-2048_x86fre_server-enterpriseserver_retail_en-us-NRMEFPP_EN.iso (SHA1: 0309FFB4181BA5122C692A6E1079E9FC1D53FCE4)
5.2.3790.0.srv03_rtm.030324-2048_x86fre_server-webserver_retail_en-us-NRMWFPP_EN.iso (SHA1: 46C1CCB2CFC96803E304A35BEF50CD71B2C1DE38)
5.1.2600.0.xpclient.010817-1148_x86fre_client-home_retail_en-us-WXHFPP_EN.iso (SHA1: B273C8D41E3844E3E46722F52F5A4CF9F206C8D0)
5.1.2600.0.xpclient.010817-1148_x86fre_client-professional_retail_en-us-WXPFPP_EN.iso (SHA1: 1400DED4402D50F3864ED3D8DCF5CC52BA79A04A)
sbs.iso (converted from mdf; SHA1: CDB30C80FDE314C16CA11F5CD31650ECBEC7A214)