libmraa uses cmake in order to make compilation relatively painless. Cmake runs build out of tree so the recommended way is to clone from git and make a build/ directory.

You'll need swig version 3.0.1+, currently I'm using 8d226e39dc7a958013ff9ffd15e231ef206ba265 from the swig master branch. This is only required for javascript support and can be disabled with a cmake define (see below).

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make

Our cmake configure has a number of options, cmake -i will ask you all sorts of interesting questions, you can disable swig modules, build documentation etc...

Few recommended options: Changing install path from /usr/local to /usr -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX:PATH=/usr

Building debug build: -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=DEBUG

Using clang instead of gcc: -DCMAKE_C_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang -DCMAKE_CXX_COMPILER=/usr/bin/clang

Building with an older version of swig (swig 2.0+) requires the disabling of javascript: -DBUILDSWIGNODE=OFF