Meshalyzer installation - kali in windows

Question

Greetings!

In order to properly download carputils, I am using KALI (win kex) to use Linux inside my Windows system. The examples are working well, but I can't generate the mesh. I tried to install meshalyzer by the "binary package" instructions and also downloading every prerequisite and compilling it manually. Neither way worked. I can see the meshalyzer file in my downloads, but I keep getting a path error when trying to execute the examples (I tried including it maually to the path through the command "export" and also tried changing folders but nothing worked).

Another error I got was with the installation of the last 2 prerequisites. The first one:

g++: fatal error: Killed signal terminated program cc1plus compilation terminated.

make[1]:*** [Makefile:90: ../obj/ColourGroup.o] Error 1

make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

make[1]: Leaving directory '/home/-----/meshalyzer/src'

make: *** [Makefile:6: all] Error 2

and the second:

gmake[2]: *** [CMakeFiles/link_exe.dir/build.make:71: CMakeFiles/link_exe] Error 1

gmake[1]: *** [CMakeFiles/Makefile2:101: CMakeFiles/link_exe.dir/all] Error 2

gmake: *** [Makefile:156: all] Error 2

Am I missing something? How can I fix this?

Thanks,

Maria Eduarda

Answer 1

Hello,

I don't know KALI linux at all but I will try to help. Which are the two prerequisites that you didn't manage to install?

Comments

If you have no specific reason to use KALI, you could also try to use Ubuntu for example, on which you could get more help.

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The prerequisites that I failed to install were glut and cmake. If I can't find a way to fix it I'll follow your advice and try ubuntu instead. Thanks :)