# Problem with CMake and VTK

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/problem-with-cmake-and-vtk/3378
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 22, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/problem-with-cmake-and-vtk/3378 "2020-05-22T15:51:07Z")
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### Author: ![mchinand](https://discourse.vtk.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/a587f6/32.png) [@mchinand](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mchinand)
#### Post date: [May 22, 2020, 8:13pm UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/problem-with-cmake-and-vtk/3378/8 "2020-05-22T20:13:50Z")

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I usually open a Visual Studio x64 Native Tools command prompt (should be in Start Menu-\>Visual Studio 2019 ) and then launch cmake-gui.exe from the command line (e.g., “C:\Program Files\CMake\bin\cmake-gui.exe”)

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