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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.
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elextr committed Nov 15, 2017
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Alternatively you can view the API documentation online at
http://www.geany.org/manual/reference/.

Build a standalone Geany for hacking
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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
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Making pull requests on Github is the preferred way of contributing for geany.
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