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error upon installing Heimdall

Summary

upon installing Heimdall, following their steps that are referred to in the Samsung Galaxy A3 2016 install guide, https://doc.e.foundation/how-tos/install-heimdall , i get the following error message:

CMake Error: The source directory "A:/msys2/home/Rik" does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt. Specify --help for usage, or press the help button on the CMake GUI.

i get this error after entering the command: $ cmake -G "MSYS Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DQt5Widgets_DIR=/c/msys64/mingw64/qt5-static/lib/cmake/Qt5Widgets ..

Rik

Steps to reproduce

follow the steps in the Heimdall install guide here: https://doc.e.foundation/how-tos/install-heimdall After step 4 after the 3rd line i get this error

What is the current behavior?

i get an error!

What is the expected correct behavior?

haha no errors

Relevant logs and/or screenshots

(Paste any relevant logs - please use code blocks (```) to format console output, logs, and code as it's very hard to read otherwise.) (You can use adb logcat command to capture log of you device, when connected to a computer)

Possible fixes

(If you can, link to the line of code that might be the cause for this problem)

Edited by Rik Viergever