Python 'not compatible' Blender build error for Windows 11 [Solved]

Building Blender
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Hi, I’m trying to build Blender using the Building Blender on Windows Guide. I’m not very experienced so I followed the steps exactly through command line. But when I run make update I keep getting this error (see below). There are also three LNK1107 fatal errors in my Build.txt file when I run make. I tried to upload the file here but it seems I don’t have the permission yet. I’ve started from scratch multiple times and I’m just at a loss here :melting_face:

E:\blender-git\blender>make update
No explicit msvc version requested, autodetecting version.
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** Visual Studio 2022 Developer Command Prompt v17.9.1
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[vcvarsall.bat] Environment initialized for: 'x64'
Compiler Detection successful, detected VS2022
This version of E:\blender-git\blender\lib\windows_x64\python\311\bin\python.exe is not compatible with the version of Windows you're running. Check your computer's system information and then contact the software publisher.
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sounds like gif lfs left pointer files rather than the actual binaries you need, can you check the file size of that python binary?

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The python.exe file is 1KB.

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yeah thats not right, in your lib/windows_x64 folder, try running git lfs pull followed by git lfs checkout main and see if that corrects the issue.

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I think that did it! I’ll play around in the app and keep an eye out for anything weird but thank you so much!