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 ## Build Instructions
 
-This project is based on [CMake](https://cmake.org/). Simply generate project, Makefiles, etc. using [CMake](https://cmake.org/) and compile the project with the compiler of your choice. The code was tested with the following configurations:
+This project is based on [CMake](https://cmake.org/). Simply generate project, Makefiles, etc. using [CMake](https://cmake.org/) and compile the project with a compiler of your choice that supports C++11. The code was tested with the following configurations:
 - Windows 10 64-bit, CMake 3.5.2, Visual Studio 2015
 - Ubuntu 16.10 64-bit, CMake 3.5.2, GCC 6.2.0.
 
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 * Hagit Schechter and Robert Bridson. Ghost sph for animating water. ACM Trans. Graph., 31(4):61:1–61:8, July 2012. 
 
-* B. Solenthaler and R. Pajarola. Predictive-corrective incompressible SPH. ACM Trans. Graph., 28(3):40:1–40:6, July 2009. 
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+* B. Solenthaler and R. Pajarola. Predictive-corrective incompressible SPH. ACM Trans. Graph., 28(3):40:1–40:6, July 2009.