We use Apache Maven to build the code, docs, distribution, etc. and to manage dependencies.
The minimum required Maven version is 3.0.0.
Note that there are some compatibility issues with Maven 3.X still unsolved. This is specially true for the ‘site’ plugin.
The full release uses gitbook to build a static website from the documentation, if you don't have gitbook installed then you can build the distribution without docs (see below) or install gitbook using npm:
$ npm install -g gitbook gitbook-cli
If you don't have npm installed then you would need to install it first.
$ yum install npm
The easiest way would be through brew brew
You first install brew using the instructions on the brew website.
After you installed brew you can install npm by:
brew install npm
To build the full release with documentation, Javadocs, and the full web site:
$ mvn -Prelease package
To install it to your local maven repo:
$ mvn -Prelease install
It is possible to build a distribution with out the manuals and Javadocs if you don't have or want gitbook installed, simply run
$ mvn package