Branch: refs/heads/elextr-patch-2 Author: elextr elextr@gmail.com Committer: GitHub noreply@github.com Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2017 06:48:40 UTC Commit: 8c0d06378b75bc367e7110ca5f4b6a946e127eef https://github.com/geany/geany/commit/8c0d06378b75bc367e7110ca5f4b6a946e127e...
Log Message: ----------- Add simplest development build process to HACKING
New developers not familiar with open source tools seem to struggle to build Geany simply, add a section near the top of hacking with the simple "get you started" process.
Modified Paths: -------------- HACKING
Modified: HACKING 18 lines changed, 18 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) =================================================================== @@ -41,6 +41,24 @@ The documentation will be output to doc/reference/index.html. Alternatively you can view the API documentation online at http://www.geany.org/manual/reference/.
+Build a standalone Geany for hacking +------------------------------------ +This performs a simple in-tree build of Geany that does not interfere with your installed version. + +Assuming you have installed the necessary tools. + +Create a directory `/home/you/somewhere/` then:: + + cd /home/you/somewhere + git clone https://github.com/geany/geany.git + cd geany + ./autogen.sh --prefix=/home/you/somewhere + make install + cd ../bin + ./geany -c ../config + +Note no privileges or sudo are required, and when you are finished just `rm -rf /home/you/somewhere`. + Pull requests ------------- Making pull requests on Github is the preferred way of contributing for geany.
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