[NTG-context] building from source

[Hans Hagen]

On 3/21/2023 12:14 PM, Rainer J.H. Brandt via ntg-context wrote:
> Dear Context developers,
> 
> I want to build Context MkXL from source and use that.  I went to the
> download page http://www.pragma-ade.com/download-1.htm and downloaded
> the 2023-03-20 version:
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/context/latest/cont-tmf.zip
> 
> This contains README.adoc which tells me that information can be found
> on https://wiki.contextgarden.net.
> 
> I don't find any further information about building from source, either
> in the dowloaded material, or on the wiki or the pragma-ade.com site.
> 
> What am I overlooking?
First define 'build from source'. The lmtx (mkxl) installation can be 
installed using an installer. If there is not one for the platform one 
uses, then one can download the cont-lmt zip and build the binary in 
/source/luametatex usign the build.sh script in there.

Hans

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