Could someone show me how to compile things from github?

[Matt Graham]

> Michael via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> I have never compiled a program from github. Could someone
>> show me how to compile darktable from github?
On 2021-10-19 09:19, Stephen Partington via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> This one is kind of a project per project evaluation.
> but basic steps are usual git clone the repo, find the makefiles
> etc, build, install.

You should probably not git clone the thing unless you're going to be 
contributing to the project.  Downloading the release file (the .tar.xz 
file mentioned in the other branch of the thread) will take up less disk 
space, and you don't need the history and comments if you're not a 
project developer.

Darktable is in GTK+ and requires Lua, cmake, and I think libxml as 
well.  I believe you should start off with "apt-get install lua 
gtk-devel cmake" at the very least before doing ./build.sh .  The 
build.sh script should check for all dependencies and die if there are 
missing headers or libraries.  Install the missing stuff, then try 
again, repeat until it works.  I think it puts the resulting binary in 
/opt for some reason by default, you may want to fix that with a better 
--prefix option to build.sh before running that.

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