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Merge pull request #7668 from BobSilent/improve-contributing-md-for-windows-users 

improve contributing.md for windows user
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@ -63,7 +63,6 @@ POSIX-like environments (macOS, Linux, Cygwin, etc.) so you may need to
adjust them for Windows or other shells.
The instructions below are for go 1.7. or later.
1. Download the Packer source (and its dependencies) by running
`go get github.com/hashicorp/packer`. This will download the Packer source to
`$GOPATH/src/github.com/hashicorp/packer`.
@ -86,6 +85,24 @@ The instructions below are for go 1.7. or later.
5. If everything works well and the tests pass, run `go fmt` on your code before
submitting a pull-request.
### Windows Systems
On windows systems you need at least the [MinGW Tools](http://www.mingw.org/), e.g. install via [choco](https://chocolatey.org/):
```
choco install mingw -y
```
This installs the GCC compiler, as well as a ```mingw32-make``` which can be used wherever
this documentation mentions ```make```
when building using ```go``` you also need to mention the windows
executable extension
```
go build -o bin/packer.exe
```
### Opening an Pull Request
Thank you for contributing! When you are ready to open a pull-request, you will