Compile dotCMS
Once you have cloned dotCMS, you can `git checkout` the branch you want to compile. In this case, we will compile the `master` branch. dotCMS uses Gradle as our build tool. You need to be in the `core/dotCMS` branch to use it. The gradle task `createDist` will download and package a complete dotCMS distribution.
cd core
git checkout master
cd dotCMS
./gradlew createDist
After gradle is done, you will find your newly built dotCMS distros (both tar and .zip) under the `/core/dist` folder. This is the complete dotCMS package, including a Tomcat app server needed to run dotCMS.