# CMake plugin building failure: Failed to find the required module

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cmake-plugin-building-failure-failed-to-find-the-required-module/14076
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [March 3, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cmake-plugin-building-failure-failed-to-find-the-required-module/14076 "2024-03-03T12:37:14Z")
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### Author: ![joint](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/dc4da7/32.png) [@joint](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/joint)
#### Post date: [March 3, 2024, 12:37pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cmake-plugin-building-failure-failed-to-find-the-required-module/14076/1 "2024-03-03T12:37:14Z")

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Hello dear Paraview developers!

I have written in .plugin file:  
REQUIRES\_MODULES  
VTK::PythonInterpreter

As well as in vtk.module files

But I have an error  
` Failed to find the required module VTK::PythonInterpreter. C:\Users\Mike\FidesysViewer\CMake/ParaViewPlugin.cmake	1012`

How can I correct it?

Thank u!

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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 1, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/cmake-plugin-building-failure-failed-to-find-the-required-module/14076/2 "2024-04-01T20:45:57Z")

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I suspect that the ParaView you ar compiling against is not Python-enabled. Basically the error is saying “the plugin says it needs `VTK::PythonInterpreter` but it was not found” and errors when it knows that to be the case instead of waiting for it to be incidentally caught later.