# Compile Paraview without ninja

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/compile-paraview-without-ninja/11153
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [January 11, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/compile-paraview-without-ninja/11153 "2023-01-11T13:14:15Z")
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### Author: ![Captain\_Convergence](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@Captain\_Convergence](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Captain_Convergence)
#### Post date: [January 11, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/compile-paraview-without-ninja/11153/1 "2023-01-11T13:14:15Z")

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Dear all,

I need to communicate to my IT service how to compile Paraview without using the compilation command “ninja” because they don’t have it in our cluster. In my machine, I can install the paraview super build from 0 using the following commands:

```auto
git clone --recursive https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-
superbuild.git

cmake \
-GNinja \
-DENABLE_osmesa=ON \
-DPARAVIEW_ENABLE_VISITBRIDGE=ON \
-DENABLE_python3=ON \
-DENABLE_matplotlib=ON \
-DENABLE_mpi=ON \
-DENABLE_paraview=ON \
-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release \
./paraview-superbuild

# Compilation command
ninja

```

Which would be the equivalent way to compile it using **make -j XX** cpus?

Kind regards

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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: [January 11, 2023, 1:47pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/compile-paraview-without-ninja/11153/2 "2023-01-11T13:47:37Z")

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Hi @Captain_Convergence

Just remove `-GNinja`

Best,