Cannot open include file: ‘unistd.h’: No such file or directory

The “uni” in unistd stands for “UNIX” – you won’t find it on a Windows system.

Most widely used, portable libraries should offer alternative builds or detect the platform and only try to use headers/functions that will be provided, so it’s worth checking documentation to see if you’ve missed some build step – e.g. perhaps running “make” instead of loading a “.sln” Visual C++ solution file.

If you need to fix it yourself, remove the include and see which functions are actually needed, then try to find a Windows equivalent.

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