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                    < Manually building >
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Since matrix-send uses Lua, an interpreted programming language,
building is not necessary; you could just move matrix-send.lua to
/usr/local/bin and be done with it. However, for additional speed,
the Makefile precompiles it to Lua bytecode using
luac <https://www.lua.org/manual/5.4/luac.html> which is included
in the Lua distribution. To do this yourself, follow these steps:

 => Create the shebang

In order to be run by a shell, the compiled bytecode needs a
shebang at the start. To do this, run this command:

	printf '#!/usr/bin/env lua\n' > matrix-send


 => Precompile

Now, let's append the bytecode to the file:

	luac -o - matrix-send.lua >> matrix-send


 => Mark as an executable

Finally, mark the file as executable:

	chmod +x matrix-send

The file `matrix-send` is now ready to be run by a shell.

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