Undefined: syscall.Kill on Windows

Question

I'm using eaburns/Watch library on a windows machine, but when trying to get the package with go get github.com/eaburns/Watch I get the following errors:

main.go:159: undefined: syscall.Kill
main.go:169: undefined: syscall.Wait4
main.go:169: undefined: syscall.WNOHANG

Any reason why this happens only on windows computers? How to fix this?

The package "github.com/eaburns/Watch" isn't compatible with windows. — JimB, Jan 08 '16 at 19:30
Do you know any go package to do the same thing for windows? — nicowernli, Jan 08 '16 at 20:19
No. How about combing something like [gopkg.in/fsnotify.v1](https://godoc.org/gopkg.in/fsnotify.v1), and just run the commands yourself? — JimB, Jan 08 '16 at 20:24

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 17 '23 at 03:52

The syscall package is dependent on the operating system. syscall.Kill is for Unix/Linux/Mac systems, not Windows.

Use godoc syscall to get information on the syscall package for your system. This is explained in the Overview section in the package documentation:

https://golang.org/pkg/syscall/

Undefined: syscall.Kill on Windows

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