# paraview 5.8 on windows + msmpi 10

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-8-on-windows-msmpi-10/5277
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 6, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-8-on-windows-msmpi-10/5277 "2020-09-06T03:16:27Z")
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### Author: ![kmilo9999](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@kmilo9999](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/kmilo9999)
#### Post date: [September 6, 2020, 3:16am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-8-on-windows-msmpi-10/5277/1 "2020-09-06T03:16:27Z")

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Hello,

I am trying to build paraview 5.8 with [MSMPI 10.12](https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=100593) , but cmake throws the errors:

> Could NOT find MPI\_C (missing: MPI\_C\_LIB\_NAMES MPI\_C\_WORKS)  
> Could NOT find MPI (missing: MPI\_C\_FOUND C)  
> CMake Error at VTK/CMake/vtkModule.cmake:4111 (message):  
> Could not find the MPI external dependency.  
> Call Stack (most recent call first):  
> VTK/CMake/vtkModule.cmake:4634 (vtk\_module\_find\_package)  
> VTK/Utilities/MPI/CMakeLists.txt:1 (vtk\_module\_third\_party\_external)

I followed this [guide](https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView/VRPN_with_MS-MPI) and set the The MPI\_C\_\* to:

MPI\_C\_COMPILER : C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\MPI\Lib\x64\msmpi.lib  
MPI\_C\_HEADER\_DIR: C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\MPI\Include

but still getting the error.

Any thoughts ?

Thank you in advance.

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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: [September 7, 2020, 9:16am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-8-on-windows-msmpi-10/5277/2 "2020-09-07T09:16:45Z")

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Here is the updated guide :  
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/blob/master/Documentation/dev/build.md](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/-/blob/master/Documentation/dev/build.md)

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### Author: ![kmilo9999](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@kmilo9999](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/kmilo9999)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2020, 3:10pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-8-on-windows-msmpi-10/5277/3 "2020-09-08T15:10:47Z")

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Hi,

I was digging into the cmake code and then I found my problem is related to the this post:

> [@Question about best cmake versions to use with ParaView 5.7.0-RC1](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/question-about-best-cmake-versions-to-use-with-paraview-5-7-0-rc1/2194/11):
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> Any update about this issues? Seems it is still on current branch Master…

Do you know if this has been updated?

Thank you

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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: [September 8, 2020, 3:21pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-8-on-windows-msmpi-10/5277/4 "2020-09-08T15:21:50Z")

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This issue has already been fixed

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### Author: ![kmilo9999](https://discourse.paraview.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/k/cc9497/32.png) [@kmilo9999](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/kmilo9999)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-5-8-on-windows-msmpi-10/5277/5 "2020-09-08T19:38:13Z")

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Ok, solved it.  
the variable MPI\_C\_LIB\_NAMES has to be assigned with the value (in windows) : msmip