Compiling EDB is generally quite simple. EDB currently depends on the following packages:
Many distributions already have packages that satisify these.
Once you have QT installed, it is as simple as
$ qmake $ make
This will build the debugger along with all plugins I have written. On certain systems your qmake make be named slightly differently, I've noticed that the Fedora Core rpms name it qmake-qt4.
If you are planning on doing a make install, you likely want to specify the default plugin path, here's how you would do that.
$ qmake -makefile DEFAULT_PLUGIN_PATH="/usr/lib/edb/" $ make
For installation information, see installing