### Author:  [@jfavre](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jfavre)
#### Post date: [May 15, 2019, 6:20pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/compile-a-reader-plugin-using-hdf5/1864/1 "2019-05-15T18:20:05Z")
in my reader plugin, I include \
At compilation time, it does find vtk\_hdf5.h, but it fails on finding H5pubconf.h which is located in my $INSTALL\_PATH/include/paraview-5.6/vtkhdf5
/local/apps/ParaView/dev/include/paraview-5.6/vtkhdf5/src/H5public.h:29:10: fatal error: H5pubconf.h: No such file or directory
#include “H5pubconf.h” /\*from configure
I can fix the error by forcing it to look in the right place, but I thought it ought to just work magically. I also have to add the path to vtkhdf5/src. Here is what I use:
vtk\_module\_include(Foo
PRIVATE
/local/apps/ParaView/dev/include/paraview-5.6/vtkhdf5
/local/apps/ParaView/dev/include/paraview-5.6/vtkhdf5/src)
Is this right, or should cmake find it by itself?
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2019, 1:13pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/compile-a-reader-plugin-using-hdf5/1864/2 "2019-05-16T13:13:08Z")
Do you link against `VTK::hdf5`?
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### Author:  [@jfavre](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jfavre)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2019, 1:44pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/compile-a-reader-plugin-using-hdf5/1864/3 "2019-05-16T13:44:14Z")
No. I do not give any link instructions. Cmake correctly pulls in the
/local/apps/ParaView/dev/lib/libvtkhdf5-pv5.6.so.5.6 /local/apps/ParaView/dev/lib/libvtkhdf5\_hl-pv5.6.so.5.6 to link with. But the error comes earlier during the compilation, not the linking.
I only specify
PRIVATE\_DEPENDS
VTK::hdf5
and I thought that what used to be the ${vtkhdf5\_LIBRARIES} and ${vtkhdf5\_INCLUDE\_DIRS} would be pulled in auto-magically. (I’ll admit I still feel lost in the new module stuff)
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 16, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/compile-a-reader-plugin-using-hdf5/1864/4 "2019-05-16T13:59:00Z")
Hmm. Adding `VTK::hdf5` to `PRIVATE_DEPENDS` should work. Is your plugin publicly available?
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### Author:  [@jfavre](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jfavre)
#### Post date: [May 17, 2019, 1:56pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/compile-a-reader-plugin-using-hdf5/1864/5 "2019-05-17T13:56:19Z")
@ben.boeckel I have made a skeleton of my plugin which can be used to test. It can [partially] read the Test1.h5 file from the ParaView test infrastructure. (ExternalData/Testing/Data/Test1.h5)
[https://github.com/jfavre/TestingToShare.git](https://github.com/jfavre/TestingToShare.git)
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [May 20, 2019, 3:45pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/compile-a-reader-plugin-using-hdf5/1864/6 "2019-05-20T15:45:37Z")
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge\_requests/5562](https://gitlab.kitware.com/vtk/vtk/merge_requests/5562)
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### Author:  [@jfavre](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/jfavre)
#### Post date: [May 23, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/compile-a-reader-plugin-using-hdf5/1864/7 "2019-05-23T15:04:26Z")
Thanks @ben.boeckel. The patch has now landed in ParaView master and I was able to compile cleanly.