failure to make on Deb9

[kalpha2]

following the instructions and installing the dependencies first,
which included
The following NEW packages will be installed:
libjbig2dec0-dev libmupdf-dev libopenjp2-7-dev
0 upgraded, 3 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
and reported no errors

then make fails with
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lopenjpeg

[kalpha2]

I got past the issue by manually updating the config.mk which had
OPENJP2 = openjpeg
and changed it to
OPENJP2 = openjp2
So it builds, but when it runs, I get a distorted screen, it does appear to be attempting to render something from mixture of grey boxes and blacks lines that are present in pdf, zooming is working but is all distorted and q does quit. But useless otherwise

[Ed-Infrared]

Thank you for your comment, it helped me to compile on debian buster (deb10).
After compiling all worked well.

[jichu4n]

Thanks all! As of the 0.6.0 release, there are now pre-built .deb packages available for Debian 9 and 10, as well as a build script if needing to build from source.