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. You can view, comment on, or merge this pull request online at:
https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1690
-- Commit Summary --
* Add simplest development build process to HACKING
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M HACKING (18)
-- Patch Links --
https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1690.patch https://github.com/geany/geany/pull/1690.diff