# Paraview-superbuild: no "paraview.exe" binary on Windows 11

**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-superbuild-no-paraview-exe-binary-on-windows-11/12397
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [June 27, 2023, 11:14am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-superbuild-no-paraview-exe-binary-on-windows-11/12397 "2023-06-27T11:14:05Z")
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### Author: ![cfd\_ow](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cfd_ow/32/9715_2.png) [@cfd\_ow](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cfd_ow)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2023, 11:14am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-superbuild-no-paraview-exe-binary-on-windows-11/12397/1 "2023-06-27T11:14:05Z")

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I am currently trying to build paraview-superbuild on Windows 11. The branch name is “v5.11.1”. Here is my installed environments:

1. Visual Studio 2022
2. ninja

After I cloned the repo of paraview-superbuild, I created a folder “pv\_build” at the same level of the paraview-superbuild. In the “x64 Native Tools Command Prompt for VS 2022”, I executed this command:

> cmake …\paraview-superbuild -GNinja -DCMAKE\_INSTALL\_PREFIX=C:\Users\test\code\pv\_install -DCMAKE\_BUILD\_TYPE=Release  
> ninja  
> ninja install

I can find the compiled `pvserver.exe, pvrenderserver.exe and pvdataserver.exe`, but in either the build or install folder, I can not find the **paraview.exe** binary.

Update: I also tried to add `-DPARAVIEW_BUILD_EDITION=RENDERING` for `cmake`, but no luck.

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### Author: ![aron.helser](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/aron.helser/32/13_2.png) [@aron.helser](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/aron.helser)
#### Post date: [June 27, 2023, 4:18pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-superbuild-no-paraview-exe-binary-on-windows-11/12397/2 "2023-06-27T16:18:09Z")

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You need to enable the Qt5 project, so it will build the gui.

`-DPARAVIEW_BUILD_EDITION=CANONICAL` should do it.

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### Author: ![cfd\_ow](https://discourse.paraview.org/user_avatar/discourse.paraview.org/cfd_ow/32/9715_2.png) [@cfd\_ow](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cfd_ow)
#### Post date: [June 28, 2023, 7:27pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/paraview-superbuild-no-paraview-exe-binary-on-windows-11/12397/3 "2023-06-28T19:27:05Z")

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still the same, no luck. But I’ve already got a paraview.exe through manual compilation of paraview. I will close this post. Thank you all the same.