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Docs: Mention the GitHub downloads of prebuilt binaries.
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magnusbaeck committed Feb 27, 2016
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it. After covering that, let's start with a simple example and follow
up with reference documentation.

## Building and installing
## Installing

This program is written in the [Go](https://golang.org/) language and
needs to be compiled before it can be run. Go compilers are available
for most platforms that Logstash runs on, including Windows. Many
Linux distributions make some version of the Go compiler easily
All releases of Logstash Filter Verifier are published in binary form
for the most common platforms at
[github.com/magnusbaeck/logstash-filter-verifier/releases](https://github.com/magnusbaeck/logstash-filter-verifier/releases).

If you need to run the program on other platforms or if you want to
modify the program yourself you can build and use it on any platform
for which a [Go](https://golang.org/) compiler is available. Pretty
much any platform where Logstash runs should be fine, including
Windows.

Many Linux distributions make some version of the Go compiler easily
installable, but otherwise you can [download and install the latest
version](https://golang.org/dl/). You should be able to compile the
source code with any reasonable up to date version of the Go compiler.
The build process also requires GNU make.
The build process also requires GNU make and other GNU tools. When
building on a Windows system you need a basic [cygwin](http://cygwin.com/)
installation.

To download and compile the source, run these commands (pick another
directory name if you like):
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