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update description of Windows support in "Getting started" Section

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[{Building for a Mac:}] :link(start_2_5)
Building for a Mac :h5 :link(start_2_5)
OS X is BSD Unix, so it should just work. See the
src/MAKE/MACHINES/Makefile.mac and Makefile.mac_mpi files.
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[{Building for Windows:}] :link(start_2_6)
Building for Windows :h5 :link(start_2_6)
The LAMMPS download page has an option to download both a serial and
parallel pre-built Windows executable. See the "Running
LAMMPS"_#start_6 section for instructions on running these executables
on a Windows box.
If you want to build a Windows version of LAMMPS, you can build it
yourself, but it may require some effort. LAMMPS expects a Unix-like
build environment for the default build procedure. This can be done
using either Cygwin or MinGW; the latter also exists as a ready-to-use
Linux-to-Windows cross-compiler in several Linux distributions. In
these cases, you can do the installation after installing several
unix-style commands like make, grep, sed and bash with some shell
utilities.
The pre-built executables hosted on the "LAMMPS download
page"_http://lammps.sandia.gov/download.html are built with a subset
of the available packages; see the download page for the list. These
are single executable files. No examples or documentation in
included. You will need to download the full source code package to
obtain those.
For Cygwin and the MinGW cross-compilers, suitable makefiles are
provided in src/MAKE/MACHINES. When using other compilers, like
Visual C++ or Intel compilers for Windows, you may have to implement
your own build system. Since none of the current LAMMPS core developers
has significant experience building executables on Windows, we are
happy to distribute contributed instructions and modifications, but
we cannot provide support for those.
With the so-called "Anniversary Update" to Windows 10, there is a
Ubuntu subsystem available for Windows, that can be installed and
then it can be used to compile/install LAMMPS as if you are running
on a Ubuntu Linux system.
As an alternative, you can download "daily builds" (and some older
versions) of the installer packages from
"rpm.lammps.org/windows.html"_http://rpm.lammps.org/windows.html.
These executables are built with most optional packages and the
download includes documentation, some tools and most examples.
If you want a Windows version with specific packages included and
excluded, you can build it yourself.
One way to do this is install and use cygwin to build LAMMPS with a
standard unix style make program, just as you would on a Linux box;
see src/MAKE/MACHINES/Makefile.cygwin.
download includes documentation, potential files, some tools and
many examples, but no source code.
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