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Update BuildFromSource.md (#33773)

- there was no mention of tar being required, so I added it.

Co-authored-by: Doug Bunting <[email protected]>
Sweidan Omár 4 years ago
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@@ -108,6 +108,10 @@ NodeJS installs the Node package manager (npm) by default. This repo depends on
 npm install -g yarn
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+#### [tar](http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gtar.htm) on Windows
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+Building the repo requires tar to be installed. First, check whether `tar.exe` is already in your path i.e. execute `tar -help` (Win10 comes with tar already installed). Then, assuming you have `git` installed, you might add `C:\Program Files\Git\usr\bin\` to your path to pick up the `tar.exe` that ships with `git`. Finally, you can find installation executables of tar at <http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net/packages/gtar.htm>; download that and add the installation directory to your PATH variable.
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 #### Java Development Kit on Windows
 
 This repo contains some Java source code that depends on an install of the JDK v11 or newer. The JDK can be installed from either: