# paraview for ci and specific compilatin flag
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-for-ci-and-specific-compilatin-flag/13039
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-for-ci-and-specific-compilatin-flag/13039 "2023-10-13T15:41:21Z")
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### Author:  [@untereiner](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/untereiner)
#### Post date: [October 13, 2023, 3:41pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-for-ci-and-specific-compilatin-flag/13039/1 "2023-10-13T15:41:21Z")
Hello,
I am writing a paraview plugin that uses an external library that has it’s own hdf5 version. I think I can compile locally paraview with `-DVTK_MODULE_USE_EXTERNAL_VTK_hdf5:BOOL=ON -DHDF5_DIR:PATH=` and then the plugin.
But how could I do that in a ci (a github one) ? I can not use the docker image kitware/paraview-for-ci
Should I create an image with hdf5 compiled and add a stage where I build paraview ? I will then be able to locate this specific version of hdf5 for my plugin
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [October 14, 2023, 12:17pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-for-ci-and-specific-compilatin-flag/13039/2 "2023-10-14T12:17:38Z")
> [@untereiner](#):
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> Should I create an image with hdf5 compiled and add a stage where I build paraview ? I will then be able to locate this specific version of hdf5 for my plugin
This sounds reasonable to me.
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### Author:  [@untereiner](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/untereiner)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2023, 6:49am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-for-ci-and-specific-compilatin-flag/13039/3 "2023-10-16T06:49:17Z")
Thank you!