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Update windows README with package development notes
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quinnj committed Jun 3, 2014
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Now `exit` the MSYS2 shell and restart it, *even if you already restarted it above*. This is necessary in case the system upgrade updated the main MSYS2 libs. Reopen the MSYS2 shell and continue with:

```
pacman -S diffutils git m4 make patch tar
pacman -S diffutils git m4 make patch tar msys/openssh
```

5. Configure your MSYS2 shell for convenience:
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touch deps/pcre-8.31/checked # This path will depend on the version of PCRE.
make -j 4 # Adjust the number of cores (4) to match your build environment.
```
6. Setup Package Development Environment
1. The `Pkg` module in Base provides many convenient tools for [developing and publishing packages](http://docs.julialang.org/en/latest/manual/packages/). One the packages added through pacman above was `openssh`, which will allow secure access to GitHub APIs. Follow GitHub's [guide](https://help.github.com/articles/generating-ssh-keys) to setting up generating SSH keys to ensure your local machine can communicate with GitHub effectively.
## Building on Windows with MinGW-builds/MSYS
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