2009/11/24 D. R. Evans :

I'm probably being blind, but I can't find any instructions about downloading the source from svn and building it.

Can some kind person please point me to such instructions?

I just tried to do it yesterday for the first time. Building the trunk under mingw with 'sh build.sh' took a very long time but worked for me (a very pleasant surprise, I didn't expect the build system to work on Windows). Only the final step of stripping the luatex binary failed, because the file name was given w/o .exe extension. Cheers, Tomek