Quickstart guide for Win7x64

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+Quick-Start Guide
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+
+## Windows 7 x64
+
+### Install basic requirements
+*Install Node.js
+*Install npm
+*Install git, make sure directory with executable is included in system PATH environment variable
+*Install cygwin or MSYS2 environment to have gnu make available
+  *in cygwin, select the make package from within setup-x86_64.exe, in MSYS2 use "pacman -S make" to install
+*Install some flavor of MS visual Studio
+*if running java tests, make sure current Java Development Kit is installed with the bin directory in system PATH environment variable (need to be able to run keytool)
+
+### Installing blpapi-http
+*clone repository
+*if version of MSVS isn't what's expected, npm installs that require compiling dependencies will fail; use npm config to set the version, e.g. �npm config set msvs_version 2015� for visual studio 2015
+*from within a cygwin or MSYS2 shell, run "make build" to build the wrapper and dependencies
+
+### Run notes
+*edit config.js to set options
+  *while code defaults to use http rather than https for the server, most code examples are set up to use https
+  *without root privileges, default port of 80 for server will fail to bind. May wish to specify higher port for testing, e.g. 4567
+*launch by running "node index.js"
+*If running examples with server launched in http mode, simply find/replace "https" to "http" in the example code, explicitly specify port and host, comment out �key:�, �cert:�, and �ca:� lines in �var options = {�}�