Hi,
In order to make life easier for newbies, or people who don't want to
struggle with setup of development environment so that they can
compile Huggle, which is essential for contribution, I created this
portable VM that is based on Ubuntu and has complete dev environment
preinstalled, with all dependencies.
You can try it here:
http://tools.wmflabs.org/huggle/files/huggle.ova (3GB)
I am going to prepare some how-to for people who don't know much about
linux, but if you do, you will find it very easy to use. Huggle is
preinstalled together with source code, link is on Desktop.
If you open QtCreator (link in side bar) you can just click open last
project and you will get to preconfigured IDE for Huggle development.
You can simply hit build all to compile everything, run in debug mode
and so on...
Let me know if you had any questions or suggestions. You can also
track this
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T177145