# Can't build Paraview on Windows

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-build-paraview-on-windows/4061
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [April 14, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-build-paraview-on-windows/4061 "2020-04-14T03:31:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author: ![todoooo](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/todoooo/32/2819_2.png) [@todoooo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/todoooo)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2020, 3:31am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-build-paraview-on-windows/4061/1 "2020-04-14T03:31:51Z")

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I can’t get the Paraview master branch to build on my Windows 10 machine due to CMake 3.17 configuration errors in CMakeLists.txt.

> ```
> include could not find load file:
> vtkCompilerChecks
> vtkCompilerPlatformFlags
> vtkCompilerExtraFlags
> vtkInitializeBuildType
> vtkSupportMacros
> vtkDirectories
> 
> ```

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-build-paraview-on-windows/4061/2 "2020-04-14T03:33:11Z")

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`git submodule update --init --recursive` ?

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### Author: ![todoooo](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/todoooo/32/2819_2.png) [@todoooo](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/todoooo)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2020, 4:19am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-build-paraview-on-windows/4061/3 "2020-04-14T04:19:37Z")

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I just need to get Qt now. Thanks.

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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/mwestphal/32/17_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2020, 4:40am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-build-paraview-on-windows/4061/4 "2020-04-14T04:40:59Z")

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@ben.boeckel : do you think we could improve this error message when forgetting to update submodule ?  
It is a common hurdle for first builders.

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2020, 1:28pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-build-paraview-on-windows/4061/5 "2020-04-14T13:28:36Z")

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Yeah, detecting if `${vtk_cmake_dir}` exists would be the best way.

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2020, 1:31pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-build-paraview-on-windows/4061/6 "2020-04-14T13:31:37Z")

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[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/merge\_requests/4045](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/merge_requests/4045)

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### Author: ![ymjia](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/y/ccd318/32.png) [@ymjia](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ymjia)
#### Post date: [April 14, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cant-build-paraview-on-windows/4061/7 "2020-04-14T15:09:26Z")

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their is an error messge in CMakeLists:4 at VTK/ThirdParty/vtkm/vtkvtkm/, my first build passed thank to this message:)