How to Compile Changes to Code on MacOS?

[janvi-kalra]

Noob question, how do you test code changes made on a macOS?

I am able to run Flameshot successfully. Once I edit code in circletool.cpp in vscode, however, the changes don't show up. I tried to delete the build directory and re-build and re-install the code via

mkdir build
cd build
cmake ../ -DQt5_DIR=$(brew --prefix qt5)/lib/cmake/Qt5
make

and then

sudo make install

but no luck.

For example, here is how I changed the code in circletool.cpp, but the tool still looks the same (the description, icon name, name did not change)

[mmahmoudian]

I don't think your problem is with compiling. It seems your problem is with running the version you have compiled. If you run the binary of flameshot in your build folder, you will see your changes.

As a side note, you can always check which binary you are running by ls -al "$(which flameshot)"