I managed to build it using a beta version I found a reference to here: http://developer.telldus.se/ticket/473#comment:2
The steps I used was the following:
wget https://s3.eu-central-1.amazonaws.com/download.telldus.com/pool/main/t/telldus-core/telldus-core_2.1.3-beta1.orig.tar.gz
tar xvf telldus-core_2.1.3-beta1.orig.tar.gz
cd telldus-core_2.1.3-beta1
sudo apt-get install cmake build-essential
sudo apt-get install libconfuse-dev libftdi-dev
cmake .
make
sudo make install
sudo ldconfig
In order for telldusd to start automatically at boot create the file /etc/systemd/system/telldusd.service with the following content:
[Unit]
Description=Tellstick service daemon
After=multi-user.target
[Service]
Type=forking
ExecStart=/usr/local/sbin/telldusd
[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target
Then run the following commands to start telldusd:
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable telldusd.service
sudo systemctl start telldusd.service
Edit: adding steps for automatic start of telldusd, typos, update after comments