github -- building an app ---- waaayy off topic!!

[bruce]

Hi peeps!

This is way off topic, but I haven't yet found a good nderstanding of
how to accomplish my goal.

I'm trying to build an app from source from github. So this is a
"learning' process.

The target app -- browsermob proxy is a proxy tool/server.

The source obviously is on github. The instructions for building the
app are sparse.

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https://github.com/lightbody/browsermob-proxy

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Getting started: Standalone

To run in standalone mode from the command line, first download the
latest release from the releases page, or build the latest from
source.

The download/releases page has a

browsermob-proxy-2.1.4-bin.zip
Source code (zip)
Source code (tar.gz)

But I'm not sure if the bin.zip is for windows/linux... i'm running
linux obviously!
So it's prob/alos good to know how to build from the Source anyhow..

These are the build from source instructions.. I'm not sure what to do
with this!!

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Building the latest from source

You'll need maven (brew install maven if you're on OS X):

[~]$ mvn -DskipTests

You'll find the standalone BrowserMob Proxy distributable zip at
browsermob-dist/target/browsermob-proxy-2.1.5-SNAPSHOT-bin.zip. Unzip
the contents and run the browsermob-proxy or browsermob-proxy.bat
files in the bin directory.

When you build the latest code from source, you'll have access to the
latest snapshot release. To use the SNAPSHOT version in your code,
modify the version in your pom:

    <dependency>
        <groupId>net.lightbody.bmp</groupId>
        <artifactId>browsermob-core</artifactId>
        <version>2.1.6-SNAPSHOT</version>
        <scope>test</scope>
    </dependency>
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Haven't found any pointers across the web on how/what to do to build
the app on linux.

Any help is greatly appreciated

thanks