Building
Once you’ve installed mint-dev-tools, building Linux Mint projects from source is extremely easy.
Downloading the source code
Use git clone to get the source from github.
For instance, to get the source for mintinstall type:
Building a project for the first time
Use mint-build to build a project for the first time.
mint-build doesn’t just build the project, it also fetches and installs the build dependencies (i.e. the packages which are required for the build to succeed).
To build mintinstall you would type:
When the build is complete, the resulting binary .deb packages are located in the parent directory (in this example in ~/Sandbox).
Building a project
If all the build dependencies are already installed for a particular project (this is done by mint-build the first time you build a project), you can build faster by just calling dpkg-buildpackage.
To build mintinstall you would type:
Respecting the build order
If new changes in the project you’re trying to build require new changes in another project you might need to build and install that other project first.
In general it’s a good idea to build mint-common and xapps first.
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