README: add build instructions

This should close #260.
luvit · Jun 28, 2012 · 42923ed · 42923ed
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 print("Server listening at http://localhost:8080/")
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+### Building from git
+
+Grab a copy of the source code:
+
+`git clone https://github.com/luvit/luvit.git --recursive`
+
+To use the gyp build system run:
+
+```
+cd luvit
+./configure
+make -C out
+tools/build.py test
+./out/Debug/luvit
+```
+
+To use the Makefile build system (for embedded systems without python)
+run:
+
+```
+cd luvit
+make
+make test
+./build/luvit
+```
+
 ## Debugging
 
 Luvit contains an extremely useful debug API. Lua contains a stack which is used