# Error building ITK 5.4 with CMake on MSVC 19.44: unresolved external symbol \_\_std\_find\_first\_of\_trivial\_pos\_1

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**Category:** Beginner Questions
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**Created:** [November 27, 2025, 3:11am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/error-building-itk-5-4-with-cmake-on-msvc-19-44-unresolved-external-symbol-std-find-first-of-trivial-pos-1/7673 "2025-11-27T03:11:18Z")
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### Author: ![dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/user_avatar/discourse.itk.org/dzenanz/32/1093_2.png) [@dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dzenanz)
#### Post date: [November 28, 2025, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/error-building-itk-5-4-with-cmake-on-msvc-19-44-unresolved-external-symbol-std-find-first-of-trivial-pos-1/7673/7 "2025-11-28T13:59:08Z")

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Take a look at this:

> [@ITK include directories for VS2017](https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-include-directories-for-vs2017/589/4):
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> @ankita [Here](https://public.kitware.com/pipermail/insight-users/2009-October/033164.html) is some old [discussion](https://public.kitware.com/pipermail/insight-users/2009-October/033176.html) about using ITK without CMake. In short, use CMake as meta-build system, and you don’t need to fiddle with include directories. If you don’t want to use CMake for whatever reason, configure some example project using CMake, generate a Visual Studio solution, and then you can copy include directories and link libraries from that example project to your own project.

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