# "vtkXOpenGLRenderWindow (0x7fffd7237640): Could not find a decent config"

**URL:** https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtkxopenglrenderwindow-0x7fffd7237640-could-not-find-a-decent-config/5206
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [February 18, 2021, 9:17am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtkxopenglrenderwindow-0x7fffd7237640-could-not-find-a-decent-config/5206 "2021-02-18T09:17:09Z")
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### Author: ![mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/user_avatar/discourse.vtk.org/mwestphal/32/19_2.png) [@mwestphal](https://discourse.vtk.org/u/mwestphal)
#### Post date: [February 18, 2021, 9:20am UTC](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/vtkxopenglrenderwindow-0x7fffd7237640-could-not-find-a-decent-config/5206/2 "2021-02-18T09:20:16Z")

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> [@Any guides for building VTK on Ubuntu 18.04 using WSL?](https://discourse.vtk.org/t/any-guides-for-building-vtk-on-ubuntu-18-04-using-wsl/2999):
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> Hello! I am trying to build VTK 8.1 for Linux basically in WSL, because I want to incorporate this functionality showcasen here in my own code; [https://lorensen.github.io/VTKExamples/site/Cxx/IO/WriteVTP/](https://lorensen.github.io/VTKExamples/site/Cxx/IO/WriteVTP/) I am struggling quite a bit, since I am able to build it succesfully and find some of the header files, but for some reason some files like; vtkCommonCoreModule.h vtkCommonDataModelModule.h Are not found and I am pretty clueless to why that would be the case? I am able to find all of th…

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