# How to build ParaView 0.2?

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-build-paraview-0-2/17459
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [March 4, 2026, 12:17pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-build-paraview-0-2/17459 "2026-03-04T12:17:11Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![CsatiZoltan](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/csatizoltan/32/6997_2.png) [@CsatiZoltan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/CsatiZoltan)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2026, 12:17pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-build-paraview-0-2/17459/1 "2026-03-04T12:17:11Z")

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When browsing on the website of ParaView, I saw that the oldest version for download is [v0.2](https://www.paraview.org/paraview-downloads/download.php?submit=Download&version=v0.2&type=source&os=Sources&downloadFile=ParaView-0-2.zip). I tried to build it with CMake, but I get the following error:

```auto
ParaView requires VTK to build. Please set VTK_BINARY_DIR to directory where vtkConfigure.h and UseVTK.cmake are found.

```

I guess that v0.2 did not ship VTK with its source code. Which version of VTK should I use with ParaView 0.2? The earliest VTK version in the Git repository is 9.3.0.

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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: [March 4, 2026, 12:36pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-build-paraview-0-2/17459/2 "2026-03-04T12:36:21Z")

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@Louis_Gombert

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### Author: ![Louis\_Gombert](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/louis_gombert/32/14576_2.png) [@Louis\_Gombert](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Louis_Gombert)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2026, 12:46pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-build-paraview-0-2/17459/3 "2026-03-04T12:46:53Z")

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Hello @CsatiZoltan , old ParaView enthusiast here. I managed to build v0.6 a couple of years ago with a modern toolchain after some patching. v0.2 should not be too different.

Here is the patched ParaView branch: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/lgombert/paraview/-/tree/fix-paraview0.6?ref\_type=heads](https://gitlab.kitware.com/lgombert/paraview/-/tree/fix-paraview0.6?ref_type=heads)

And here the VTK branch: [https://gitlab.kitware.com/lgombert/vtk/-/tree/fix-paraview0.6?ref\_type=heads](https://gitlab.kitware.com/lgombert/vtk/-/tree/fix-paraview0.6?ref_type=heads)

You’ll need to use CMake 1.5 to configure the project, which itself can build just fine using current-day CMake.

Hilariously, the resulting executable is a single 30M statically-linked executable. My favorite hobby is sharing it via gchat. I can email it to you if you wish 🙂

Tell me how the compilation goes!

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### Author: ![CsatiZoltan](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/csatizoltan/32/6997_2.png) [@CsatiZoltan](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/CsatiZoltan)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2026, 12:59pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/how-to-build-paraview-0-2/17459/4 "2026-03-04T12:59:30Z")

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Thank you, I will try it in my free time. Your patches require knowledge in the C++ and Tcl codes of ParaView and VTK, which I currently don’t have. It would be cool to make PV 0.2 work, a real dinosaur!