0. Download camunda-bpm-tomcat-7.9.0

extract anywhere, run start-camunda.{bat|sh} To deploy process models, follow step 3

1. Install maven

Make sure maven is installed https://maven.apache.org/install.html

check if maven is installed: mvn -version on your command line

2. build this project from main directory

type mvn clean then mvn install into your command line terminal

3. copy built files from /target folder

a /target folder should appear on success respectively the project will be rebuilt. Copy the .war file from the target folder into your server's webapps folder, which should be similar to camunda-bpm-tomcat-7.9.0\server\apache-tomcat-9.0.5\webapps\