Insuring you have a compatible compiling environment

Issue in a terminal:

  java -version

You should insure that you have JDK version 1.5+ installed

Check out the sources

Insure that you have installed source code Mercurial client:

  hg version

If present the command should have an output similar to:

  Mercurial Distributed SCM (version 2.0.2)
  (see http://mercurial.selenic.com for more information)

  Copyright (coffee) 2005-2011 Matt Mackall and others
  This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
  warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE

Check out the sources into the newly created folder

Example:

  mkdir test
  cd test
  hg clone https://code.google.com/p/alfresco-environment-validation/ 
  cd alfresco-environment-validation

Note: for more information if you want to be able to push your own code, please refer to here.

Compile and package using Maven

Insure that you have Maven 3.0.5+ installed.

  mvn --version
  Apache Maven 3.0.5 (r01de14724cdef164cd33c7c8c2fe155faf9602da; 2013-02-19 14:51:28+0100)
  Maven home: /home/philippe/apache-maven-3.0.5
  Java version: 1.7.0, vendor: Oracle Corporation
  Java home: /home/philippe/jdk1.7.0/jre
  Default locale: en_US, platform encoding: UTF-8
  OS name: "linux", version: "3.2.0-58-generic", arch: "amd64", family: "unix"

To install latest maven tool, please refer to http://maven.apache.org/

The source code that you just checked out contains on its first level a "pom.xml" for Maven.

Insure that you have it in your directory while issuing:

  mvn package

After a successful compilation and packaging, have a look at the "target" sub folder, it should contain alfresco-environment-validation-xxx-dist.zip

For an example of how to use the tool please refer to the Usage page.