Does anyone know how to compile windows 3D movie maker?

Squint.

Why exactly would you be asking to compile an extant executable?

The source code for 3D Movie Maker was recently Open Sourced.

According to some news posts about it, the source code was released as is. No attempts to modernize it have been made. It therefore requires the original compiler to build currently and that was apperently Visual C 2.0. There is an abandonware site online where you can find Visual C 1.52c or Visual Studio 5.0, but I'm not sure if they will compile it.

You may be better off waiting for someone to update the code to work with a modern compiler. As of this posting there's at least 219 forks on github. So hopefully one of them will get it done.

Personally, I can't wait to finally find all of the missing pages to the talent book. :)

Huh. I'll give Microsoft this, they ain't pullin no Disney Vault.

I find it interesting that some random dude on the internet asked MicroSoft to make Windows 3D Movie Maker Open Source and MicroSoft said yes here is the Source Code to it do whatever you want.

Can we beg MicroSoft now to Open Source DirectX 1 to Direct 12?

Probably not. Maybe 1-7 at the most. Even then, if they did, they'd be letting go of the grip they have on the market. Wine and by extension ReactOS would have internalized the code in seconds.

Not likely. Wine at the very least is missing most of the kernel level APIs that Microsoft's code would undoubtably link into. Think performance code is going to link into some abstraction API? At best it will provide some callbacks for the DDK but that's it. Plus DirectX 1-7 is mostly Win9x era. ReactOS wouldn't have much pre-existing support either being based on NT instead of DOS.

But hey, given this release you may as well go for it. If anything it could help in preservation efforts.