How to compile Haiku on Haiku?

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Yes , I want to continue this conversation from over 4 years ago because I tried to compile Haiku x86_64 on Haiku x86_64 and found this but did not make any progress because I missed that elusive step-by-step guide. So, I made my own guide and will publish it here. I will obviously risk the comments from the Haiku community for this, but so be it!
STEP BY STEP GUIDE:
This howto is based on the instructions given on Compiling for x86_64 | Haiku Project
and is only for compiling a x86_64 image. For other images see the Haiku documentation.

This is done on a machine running Haiku x86_64 and the resulting image can be burned to a cd or used to create a bootable USB drive.
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  1. open /boot/home/
    0.1 cd ~

  2. mkdir compile
    THIS CAN BE ANY NAME YOU WISH

  3. cd compile/

  4. git clone https://review.haiku-os.org/haiku.git
    Cloning into ‘haiku’…
    remote: Counting objects: 14367, done
    remote: Finding sources: 100% (756372/756372)
    remote: Finding sources: 100% (756372/756372)MiB | 81.00 KiB/s
    Receiving objects: x%(XXXXXX/756372) , YY.ZZ MiB | NN KiB/s
    THIS IS VERY SLOW, SO BE PATIENT…
    100% (756372/756372), 397.61 MiB | 1.33MiB/s ,done.
    Resolving deltas: 100% (577909/577909), done.
    Updating files : 100%(32217/32217), done.

  5. git clone https://review.haiku-os.org/buildtools.git
    Cloning into ‘buildtools’ …
    THIS IS A SLOW PROCESS. WAIT UNTIL IT SHOWS THE RESULTS BELOW
    remote: Counting objects: 292317, done
    remote: Finding sources: 100% (292317/292317)
    remote: Total 292317 (delta 170645), reused 292284 (delta 170645)
    Receiving objects: 100% (292317/292317), 370.23 MiB | 1.76 MiB/s, done.
    Resolving deltas: 100% (170645/170645), done.
    Updating files: 100% (121130/121130), done.

  6. cd haiku; mkdir generated.x86_64;

  7. cd generated.x86_64

  8. …/configure --cross-tools-source …/…/buildtools --build-cross-tools x86_64

    AND WAIT FOR A WHILE ON MY MACHINE IT STARTED AT 17:32 …17:57 = 25 MINUTES

  9. jam -q -j2 @nightly-anyboot
    THIS CREATES AN ISO FILE TO BURN TO CD OR USB STICK.

    THE NUMBER AFTER -j IS THE NUMBER OF CORES OF YOUR CPU. I LEFT IT AT 2.MORE CORES,LESS TIME TO WAIT.
    AND WAIT FOR A WHILE ON MY MACHINE IT STARTED AT 17:59 …18:43=44 MINUTES
    THIS COMPILES ALL THE FILES NEEDED AND PUTS THEM INTO THE IMAGE.
    THE IMAGE IS LOCATED AT
    /boot/home/compile/haiku/generated.x86_64/haiku-nightly-anyboot.iso
    IT CAN BE BURNED TO CD OR USB STICK.

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