# strange error when building paraview superbuild on Windows 10 with cmake
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/strange-error-when-building-paraview-superbuild-on-windows-10-with-cmake/514
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 3, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/strange-error-when-building-paraview-superbuild-on-windows-10-with-cmake/514 "2018-09-03T15:05:18Z")
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### Author:  [@quagfeng](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/quagfeng)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2018, 3:05pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/strange-error-when-building-paraview-superbuild-on-windows-10-with-cmake/514/1 "2018-09-03T15:05:18Z")
Hi,
I follow the link here
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview-superbuild)
to build Paraview 5.5.2 on my PC.
Following the link it is said that
> The superbuild can be built with a Makefiles or Ninja CMake generator. The IDE generators (Xcode and Visual Studio) are not supported.
However, if I try with Makefiles/Ninja generator in cmake, it ends with a CMake Error
> CMake Error at superbuild/projects/win32/boost.cmake:5 (message):
> At least Visual Studio 9.0 is required
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
> superbuild/cmake/SuperbuildMacros.cmake:673 (include)
> superbuild/CMakeLists.txt:145 (\_superbuild\_discover\_projects)
I also find the following method by using Ninja + VS 12/14 compiler( with vcvarsall.bat, see the following link) in the archives of the old mailing lists, but this method doesn’t work for me either, I still get the same error (At least Visual Studio 9.0 is required…):
[https://markmail.org/message/cjnniaac4lt2ldy4](https://markmail.org/message/cjnniaac4lt2ldy4)
could anyone give some help?
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### Author:  [@Haocheng\_Liu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Haocheng_Liu)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 12:46am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/strange-error-when-building-paraview-superbuild-on-windows-10-with-cmake/514/2 "2018-09-04T00:46:51Z")
> [@quagfeng](#):
>
> CMake Error at superbuild/projects/win32/boost.cmake:5 (message):
> At least Visual Studio 9.0 is required
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
> superbuild/cmake/SuperbuildMacros.cmake:673 (include)
> superbuild/CMakeLists.txt:145 (\_superbuild\_discover\_projects)
It looks like CMake does not find the visual studio compiler. Did you run cmake via the visual studio interface(aka visual studio x64 win64 command prompt)? If using CMake-gui, did you specify the compiler?
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 7:45am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/strange-error-when-building-paraview-superbuild-on-windows-10-with-cmake/514/3 "2018-09-04T07:45:03Z")
> [@quagfeng](#):
>
> f I try with Makefiles/Ninja generator in cmake, it ends with a CMake Error
Make sure you run cmake-gui and ninja from the visual studio native command.
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### Author:  [@quagfeng](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/quagfeng)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 9:32am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/strange-error-when-building-paraview-superbuild-on-windows-10-with-cmake/514/4 "2018-09-04T09:32:42Z")
Hi Haocheng,
thank you very much for your reply!
The Cmake-gui seems need more variables to be set, so I switched to the command line.
I tried to run the cmake via the visual studio interface, but I still got the “At least Visual Studio 9.0 is required” error.
However, today I found out that the visual studio interface only adjusts the **path** variable and sets some other variables. Then based on the adjusted **path** , cmake finds the compiler for MinGW/Strawberry for me at first. After deleting unneeded entries in my **path** variable, the cmake can finally find the VS compiler and I get rid of this error.
But now I get a new error:
> CMake Error at superbuild/cmake/SuperbuildUtils.cmake:45 (message):
> CMAKE\_BUILD\_TYPE must be one of: Release, RelWithDebInfo.
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
> superbuild/CMakeLists.txt:25 (include)
Based on this [link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19024259/how-to-change-the-build-type-to-release-mode-in-cmake?rq=1), I tried the following command:
> cmake --config Release -GNinja …
But I still get this “CMAKE\_BUILD\_TYPE” error. Do you know how to solve this?
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### Author:  [@quagfeng](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/quagfeng)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 9:36am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/strange-error-when-building-paraview-superbuild-on-windows-10-with-cmake/514/5 "2018-09-04T09:36:07Z")
Hi Mathieu,
thank you very much for your reply!
The Cmake-gui seems need more variables to be set, so I switched to the command line.
Actually, with Cmake-gui I get this error:
> CMake Error at C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.12/Modules/CMakeDetermineRCCompiler.cmake:20 (message):
> Could not find compiler set in environment variable RC:
> rc.
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
> C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.12/Modules/Platform/Windows-MSVC.cmake:380 (enable\_language)
> C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.12/Modules/Platform/Windows-MSVC-C.cmake:5 (\_\_windows\_compiler\_msvc)
> C:/Program Files/CMake/share/cmake-3.12/Modules/CMakeCInformation.cmake:48 (include)
> CMakeLists.txt:3 (project)
> CMake Error: CMAKE\_RC\_COMPILER not set, after EnableLanguage
I tried to run the cmake via the visual studio interface, but I still got the “At least Visual Studio 9.0 is required” error.
Today I found out that the visual studio interface only adjusts the **path** variable and sets some other variables. Then based on the adjusted **path** , cmake finds the compiler for MinGW/Strawberry for me at first. After deleting unneeded entries in my **path** variable, the cmake can finally find the VS compiler and I get rid of this error.
But now I get a new error:
> CMake Error at superbuild/cmake/SuperbuildUtils.cmake:45 (message):
> CMAKE\_BUILD\_TYPE must be one of: Release, RelWithDebInfo.
> Call Stack (most recent call first):
> superbuild/CMakeLists.txt:25 (include)
Based on this [link](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19024259/how-to-change-the-build-type-to-release-mode-in-cmake?rq=1), I tried the following command:
> cmake --config Release -GNinja …
But I still get this “CMAKE\_BUILD\_TYPE” error. Do you know how to solve this?
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### Author:  [@Haocheng\_Liu](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/Haocheng_Liu)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 12:11pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/strange-error-when-building-paraview-superbuild-on-windows-10-with-cmake/514/6 "2018-09-04T12:11:24Z")
> [@quagfeng](#):
>
> cmake --config Release -GNinja …
Can you try `cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release`?
Or you can manally change the `CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE` variable in the CMakeCache.txt file.
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### Author:  [@quagfeng](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/quagfeng)
#### Post date: [September 4, 2018, 1:25pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/strange-error-when-building-paraview-superbuild-on-windows-10-with-cmake/514/7 "2018-09-04T13:25:48Z")
Thank you very much! Now I have built it successfully.