E-mailOnce you have built the master POM, issue the following Maven goals from the sakai-src directory or from the folder containing the Sakai modules downloaded from our SVN code repository:
$ mvn clean install sakai:deploy -Dmaven.tomcat.home=/pathto/tomcathome
-Dmaven.tomcat.home specifies Tomcat's location and can be omitted if Tomcat home is specified in Maven's settings.xml file.
When performing your first build of Sakai, Maven will run for quite a few minutes issuing fairly verbose output. Maven will download any missing dependencies into your local repository, then attempt to compile the Sakai code and, if successful, will then deploy Sakai to Tomcat in the form of *.war files in the $CATALINA_HOME/webapps directory. If during this process Maven reports that the build failed read the accompanying error message carefully to troubleshoot the issue (see the [Troubleshooting] section).
You can also issue mvn clean install sakai:deploy from any sakai project module top-level folder in order to build and deploy portions of Sakai such as individual tools.