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a) Yes. I figured out that bug this weekend. Actually the installer stops instead of telling you about missing software, only because of a wrongly formatted error message. Fixed, but not uploaded yet.
b) Lua for Windows is a runtime which adds needed libraries to the basic virtual machine : the only other way to get them is to compile yourself. Everything needed is copied by the installer, so you can uninstall Lua for Windows afterward (Lua itself is not needed).
c) as for other softwares, you need :
- wxLua and the ConTeXt installer in any case
- Info-Zip if you checked the ePUB button
So that's three more zip file yous need to have in your "Downloads" folder, which might also be deleted once install is complete.
Using the tool is not going to be an "run as soon as possible" matter either, but the learning curve is really nothing compared to becoming acquainted with ConTeXt (or LaTeX for that matter).
There's also definitely be bugs showing out : that's hardly avoidable within more than 25.000 lines of software.
If the PDF button is checked, the installer will download and install ConTeXt, which is about 200Mb, for you : obviously this will take some time.
This is actually the easiest way I could figure out to get the necessary software on Windows.
To sum up (it's detailed in the doc) :
a) have :
LuaForWindows_v5.1.4-45.exe
whatever-win32.exe
context-setup-mswin.zip
wxLua-2.8.10-MSW-bin.zip
zip300xn.zip (if ePUB selected)
whatever-full.zip
whatever-docs.zip (optional, but recommended as this will allow testing the installation)
in your %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\Downloads folder (all together that is somewhere around 50Mb)
b) install Lua For Windows where it propose you (this is either C:\Program Files (x86)\Lua\5.1 or C:\Program Files\Lua\5.1)
c) run the installer, it should now work.
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