# build and install SimpleITK on windows 10 error
**URL:** https://discourse.itk.org/t/build-and-install-simpleitk-on-windows-10-error/2520
**Category:** Beginner Questions
**Created:** [December 12, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/build-and-install-simpleitk-on-windows-10-error/2520 "2019-12-12T15:46:57Z")
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### Author:  [@sag](https://discourse.itk.org/u/sag)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2019, 3:46pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/build-and-install-simpleitk-on-windows-10-error/2520/1 "2019-12-12T15:46:57Z")
Hi,
I cloned SimpleITK to my windows 10 pc, created src, bin folders and copied SimpleITK source into src, then naturally tried to configure and generate code for vs2017. I get error in configure step says: could not find LuaInterp (missing: LUA\_EXECUTABLE) (REQUIRED AT LEAST VERSION 5.3). I googled LuaInterp and saw it is related to linux and I try to install on my windows 10 laptop? any clues how to install LuaInterp and what is wrong with configure of SimpleITK
Thanks in advance for the help!
Regards,
sag
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### Author:  [@blowekamp](https://discourse.itk.org/u/blowekamp)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2019, 3:51pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/build-and-install-simpleitk-on-windows-10-error/2520/2 "2019-12-12T15:51:42Z")
Please find the instruction for building SimpleITK here:
[https://simpleitk.readthedocs.io/en/master/Documentation/docs/source/building.html](https://simpleitk.readthedocs.io/en/master/Documentation/docs/source/building.html)
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### Author:  [@sag](https://discourse.itk.org/u/sag)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2019, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/build-and-install-simpleitk-on-windows-10-error/2520/3 "2019-12-12T19:55:53Z")
Hi Bradley,
Thanks for the response I installed my simpleitk for Java and gladly used the gaussian Example of it in the manual to be exact it is called GaussianExample.java. problem is that I don’t know what kind of image format to use as input and output. I tried png format for input and it complained about vector of 8 bit image is not acceptable. then I tried dicom format and for the output I used png still not working for the output. do you know what formats are acceptable?
Regards,
sag
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### Author:  [@sag](https://discourse.itk.org/u/sag)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2019, 7:56pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/build-and-install-simpleitk-on-windows-10-error/2520/4 "2019-12-12T19:56:36Z")
Hi Bradley,
Thanks for the response I installed my simpleitk for Java and gladly used the gaussian Example of it in the manual to be exact it is called GaussianExample.java. problem is that I don’t know what kind of image format to use as input and output. I tried png format for input and it complained about vector of 8 bit image is not acceptable. then I tried dicom format and for the output I used png still not working for the output. do you know what formats are acceptable?
Regards,
sag