Updated README for Windows installation

Adds a section under "Installation" that details all the steps necessary to getting manim to run on Windows. Tested on several Windows 10 machines with unvarying success.
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@ -18,6 +18,24 @@ python3 -m pip install -r requirements.txt
python3 -m manim example_scenes.py SquareToCircle -pl python3 -m manim example_scenes.py SquareToCircle -pl
``` ```
### Directly (Windows)
1. [Install FFmpeg](https://www.wikihow.com/Install-FFmpeg-on-Windows).
2. Install Cairo. Download the wheel from https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pycairo. For most users, ``pycairo1.18.0cp37cp37mwin32.whl`` will do fine.
```sh
pip3 install C:\path\to\wheel\pycairo1.18.0cp37cp37mwin32.whl
```
3. Install a LaTeX distibution. [MiKTeX](https://miktex.org/download) is recommended.
4. [Install SoX](https://sourceforge.net/projects/sox/files/sox/).
5. Install the remaining Python packages. Make sure that ``pycairo==1.17.1`` is changed to ``pycairo==1.18.0`` in requirements.txt.
```sh
git clone https://github.com/3b1b/manim.git
cd manim
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 manim.py example_scenes.py SquareToCircle -pl
```
### Using `virtualenv` and `virtualenvwrapper` ### Using `virtualenv` and `virtualenvwrapper`
After installing `virtualenv` and `virtualenvwrapper` After installing `virtualenv` and `virtualenvwrapper`
```sh ```sh