# how to run the example through cmake?

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-run-the-example-through-cmake/12342
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** code
**Created:** [September 22, 2023, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-run-the-example-through-cmake/12342 "2023-09-22T02:51:20Z")
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### Author: ![888yyh](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/888yyh/32/7735_2.png) [@888yyh](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/888yyh)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2023, 2:51am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/how-to-run-the-example-through-cmake/12342/1 "2023-09-22T02:51:20Z")

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i am a newbie to vtk and cmake.  
[https://examples.vtk.org/site/Cxx/Visualization/FrogSlice/#download-and-build-frogslice](https://examples.vtk.org/site/Cxx/Visualization/FrogSlice/#download-and-build-frogslice)  
i downloaded and extracted the FrogSlice.tar,however i did not find the directory build.i can not implement the step “cd FrogSlice/cd”  
can you tell me how to run in windows?