So I am setting up ANT+ SDK for one of my experiments.
Get the SDK zip for Linux. The one I am using is ANT-SDK_Linux_3.8.200_(BETA).zip .
You will have to install - build-essential, gobject-introspection, libgirepository1.0-dev , gperf, libudev1, libudev-dev
cd to DEMO_LIB and make.
Run the demo file then.