To build any of the tools, you need to have the source tree for mysql-gui-common and the tree for the desired app (for example: mysql-administrator, mysql-query-browser) in the same top-level directory.

First build mysql-gui-common:

The --prefix option can have whatever value you want, normally one would specify /usr/local (the default) or /usr, but for making precompiled binaries, something in /opt might be more appropriate.

After you have successfully built mysql-gui-common, you can build the individual tools (in this example we will build mysql-administrator):

If everything went well, things should be properly built and installed.