OK, I think you just missed to update the master. Again, thanks so much for publishing the code.
Whoever wants to compile it now, please switch to the correct branch first:
git fetch && git checkout 1.0.1-Stable-Release
EDIT: Not sure if anyone else but me will have this problem, but my version of libcurl4-openssl-dev did not work during linking and I had to switch to libcurl4-gnutls-dev. Linux Mint Qiana.