# Building Paraview "from scratch" in order to use a custom plugin

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/building-paraview-from-scratch-in-order-to-use-a-custom-plugin/4233
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [May 1, 2020, 7:50am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/building-paraview-from-scratch-in-order-to-use-a-custom-plugin/4233 "2020-05-01T07:50:12Z")
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### Author: ![dutta-alankar](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/dutta-alankar/32/13310_2.png) [@dutta-alankar](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/dutta-alankar)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2020, 11:02am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/building-paraview-from-scratch-in-order-to-use-a-custom-plugin/4233/2 "2020-05-01T11:02:33Z")

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Hi,  
I have recently built Paraview from scratch using Paraview superbuild on a Cray hpc. I used the following files for that. Maybe you can edit them and have it working for your system. For me I just run `./config.sh <arguments>` and paraview gets built and installed.  
Although I faced a few errors which I was able to manually fix. Here’s more about them:  
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild/-/issues/157](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild/-/issues/157)

[config.sh](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/qbBVHyv8zFHKwtwwXoeLEO8b5tJ.sh) (3.1 KB) [paraview-cray-serc.cmake](https://discourse.paraview.org/uploads/short-url/gW6LRDfXFPGN05JqNtWyHip0zvc.cmake) (3.5 KB)

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