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Update Readme.md to notify users to install JDK #1051

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Update Readme.md to notify users to install JDK
Since tools.jar is required to build from source, I had to look around forums to have the answer. Hope this might help a few.
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itzurabhi authored Nov 20, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -10,6 +10,11 @@ virtual machines are not desirable or possible (such as iOS, embedded targets),
or where a developer is willing to produce a reasonably-sized self-contained program
without the need to ship an additional execution runtime.

Prerequesties:

Linux:
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It's true for all platforms, not just Linux.

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Should I revise and submit (remove the Linux tag ) ?

install JDK for your distribution, instead of JRE. The build requires ```tools.jar```, which is not included in JRE.

To compile from sources use following steps.

First download dependencies:
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