# There is no paraview executable after build.
**URL:** https://discourse.paraview.org/t/there-is-no-paraview-executable-after-build/662
**Category:** ParaView Support
**Created:** [September 30, 2018, 2:21am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/there-is-no-paraview-executable-after-build/662 "2018-09-30T02:21:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@govind\_sharma](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/govind_sharma)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2018, 2:21am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/there-is-no-paraview-executable-after-build/662/1 "2018-09-30T02:21:09Z")
Hi All,
Paraview build has been done successfully but as I am not able to run with
./bin/paraview
I have checked bin directory in paraview\_build, there is not paraview executable.
Only executable with paraview name is paraview-config.
How do I resolve this?
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### Author:  [@cory.quammen](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/cory.quammen)
#### Post date: [September 30, 2018, 6:33pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/there-is-no-paraview-executable-after-build/662/2 "2018-09-30T18:33:51Z")
It’s a little tough to know what might have happened with the information provided. Could you outline a little more your procedure for building ParaView? That may shed some light into what has gone wrong.
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### Author:  [@govind\_sharma](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/govind_sharma)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2018, 4:43am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/there-is-no-paraview-executable-after-build/662/3 "2018-10-01T04:43:57Z")
Thanks
1. Source code downloaded via:
git clone [https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview.git](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview.git)
cd paraview
git submodule update --init --recursive
2. cd …/
mkdir paraview\_build
cd paraview\_build
3. Configure ParaView
PARAVIEW\_BUILD\_QT\_GUI - OFF
MPI ON FOR BOTH PARAVIEW AND VTK
4. Configured and generation successfully
5. make -j 4
6. After around 86% make there were errors regarding build testing So I switch BUILD\_TESTING to OFF and
it worked
7. Again configured and generation, then make -j 4
8. Build successfully
This is the procedure, I followed.
Govind Sharma
PhD Student
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2018, 7:52am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/there-is-no-paraview-executable-after-build/662/4 "2018-10-01T07:52:52Z")
`PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI - OFF` disable the build of the paraview executable. Why are you setting this to OFF ?
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### Author:  [@govind\_sharma](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/govind_sharma)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2018, 12:24pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/there-is-no-paraview-executable-after-build/662/5 "2018-10-01T12:24:16Z")
Thanks,
I have read somewhere that `PARAVIEW_BUILD_QT_GUI` is optional. This option is useful when building ParaView on server nodes or when we are only interested in the Python client, as it avoids building of the Qt client thus does not require Qt. So I did it OFF.
Govind Sharma
PhD Student
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2018, 12:26pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/there-is-no-paraview-executable-after-build/662/6 "2018-10-01T12:26:27Z")
It is optional and correspond to the usecase you are describing. You need it ON in order to build paraview, the GUI.
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [October 1, 2018, 2:03pm UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/there-is-no-paraview-executable-after-build/662/7 "2018-10-01T14:03:30Z")
On server nodes, the `pvserver`, `pvrenderserver`, and/or `pvdataserver` executables should be used.
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### Author:  [@govind\_sharma](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/govind_sharma)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2018, 5:47am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/there-is-no-paraview-executable-after-build/662/8 "2018-10-03T05:47:23Z")
How should I set Qt5\_DIR for paraview configuration. I find there is Qt directory in Paraview folder while it was downloaded. I have also separately downloaded QT5.7.0 source code but don’t know, how do I set it for paraview configuration.
Can anyone tell me the direction to solve this?
Govind Sharma
PhD Student
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
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### Author:  [@mwestphal](https://discourse.paraview.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [October 3, 2018, 7:58am UTC](https://discourse.paraview.org/t/there-is-no-paraview-executable-after-build/662/9 "2018-10-03T07:58:55Z")
Refer to the building paraview documentation.
[https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/Documentation/dev/build.md](https://gitlab.kitware.com/paraview/paraview/blob/master/Documentation/dev/build.md)
[https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Build\_And\_Install](https://www.paraview.org/Wiki/ParaView:Build_And_Install)
QT5\_DIR should point to /path/to/qt/install/5.N/gcc\*/lib/cmake/Qt5/