How do you provide the standalone? Do you compile it yourself? If so can you document the workflow (for posterity) ?

[luzpaz]

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[MisterMakerNL]

Yes, I compile it myself instructions can be found here: https://github.com/blender/cycles/blob/main/BUILDING.md
I did even build it again more recently but non of the updates had any impact on the results, I even had some issues so I decided to keep the older version here.
Maybe I have to fork it and build releases but I have no clue atm how to do this.