Build instructions missing

[buhtz]

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Describe the bug

I can not find build instructions in the regular locations: READM, CONTRIBUTING, BUILD, INSTALL, manual.

Expected behavior

Build instructions to read.

Steps to reproduce the issue

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Client version number

2-5

Desktop environment (Linux only)

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Client package version and origin (Linux only)

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Installation path (Windows only)

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Server information

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Additional context

I need to build the client on an ARM system because upstream and Debian stable do not offer that.

[3dh-de]

+1 ...we tried it for days with two devs and failed...

[DeepDiver1975]

from a very far distance - this is a qt application which uses cmake. As long as cmake/qt is understood it should be pretty straight forward to build the client.

Furthermore the client is build on all platforms within the ci system - this should give additional hints - https://github.com/owncloud/client/tree/master/.github/workflows

Never the less I agree that instructions are missing and will be added as we go ...

[buhtz]

I am also a maintainer and not only a user. I won't dive down into cmake (which I don't know) or a proprietary CI system like Microsoft GitHub.

Just write down the command's please, like every other good FOSS project does.

[DeepDiver1975]

I won't dive down into cmake (which I don't know)

Then it will be quite a challenge - depending on your platform ....

But as stated:

Never the less I agree that instructions are missing and will be added as we go ...

[3dh-de]

Hi,thanks for the fast reply and the hint regarding the ci. There I can see, that just running cmake won‘t work - you have to run Craft with many quirky args to setup the quite complex build env. That is the missing point: No simple build rule, nor a build script with the necessary craft arguments.

[3dh-de]

A colleague of mine wrote a build guide - now it works, was very very quirky to get everything running in debug mode - following the CI system you only get release builds.

InstallGuideClientWindows.md

Hope that helps - in parallel we submitted this doc to the ownCloud devs directly.

[3dh-de]

This issue can be CLOSED now.

[buhtz]

This issue can be CLOSED now.

Thanks for your work. IMHO the guide need to be validated and integrated into upstream before the issue is fixed.

[DeepDiver1975]

refs #11989 (comment)