Building errors

[WilliamWangPeng]

HI dear author
Honor to write a letter to you, I have met this problem when building on linux

wangpeng@dacent:~/tools/3d/78/Messier87/build$ make
[ 11%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/Messier87.dir/blackhole.cpp.o
In file included from /home/wangpeng/tools/3d/78/Messier87/blackhole.h:2:0,
                 from /home/wangpeng/tools/3d/78/Messier87/blackhole.cpp:1:
/home/wangpeng/tools/3d/78/Messier87/common.h:6:10: fatal error: Windows.h: No such file or directory
 #include <Windows.h>
          ^~~~~~~~~~~
compilation terminated.
CMakeFiles/Messier87.dir/build.make:75: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/Messier87.dir/blackhole.cpp.o' failed
make[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/Messier87.dir/blackhole.cpp.o] Error 1
CMakeFiles/Makefile2:82: recipe for target 'CMakeFiles/Messier87.dir/all' failed
make[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Messier87.dir/all] Error 2
Makefile:90: recipe for target 'all' failed
make: *** [all] Error 2

Thank you
Best Regards
William

[zhongjn]

Hi,

As the error suggests, this project requires Windows API, so it could only be built on Windows at the moment. I am no longer maintaining this project, so maybe you should fix on your own fork. 😃