# How to install ITK in windows
**URL:** https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-install-itk-in-windows/2490
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [December 9, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-install-itk-in-windows/2490 "2019-12-09T04:52:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@banikr](https://discourse.itk.org/u/banikr)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2019, 4:52am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-install-itk-in-windows/2490/1 "2019-12-09T04:52:51Z")
I am using VS2019 , CMake and ITK 5.01
But after ALL\_BUILD in VS2019 I am ending with the above errors.
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### Author:  [@dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dzenanz)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2019, 2:10pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-install-itk-in-windows/2490/2 "2019-12-09T14:10:32Z")
[That is a known issue with VS2019](https://discourse.itk.org/t/has-anyone-tried-to-build-visual-studio-c-2019/1561/21), which has been resolved in 5.1b01 and 5.1rc01. [v5.1rc01](https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK/releases/tag/v5.1rc01) was tagged only yesterday, it will be some days before all the packages are created. If you need the pre-build packages, use 5.1 beta1. But since you are compiling yourself, I suggest you to use the yesterday’s 5.1 release candidate 1.
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### Author:  [@matt.mccormick](https://discourse.itk.org/u/matt.mccormick)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2019, 4:55pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-install-itk-in-windows/2490/3 "2019-12-09T16:55:04Z")
If v5.1rc1 Python packages are desired, they have been uploaded and can be installed with
```auto
python -m pip install --upgrade pip
python -m pip install --upgrade --pre itk
```
We will finish the other release items and finalize the release next week.
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### Author:  [@banikr](https://discourse.itk.org/u/banikr)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2019, 7:36pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-install-itk-in-windows/2490/4 "2019-12-09T19:36:01Z")
I am expecting to use C++ codes so python is not what I am exactly looking for.
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### Author:  [@dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dzenanz)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2019, 8:29pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-install-itk-in-windows/2490/5 "2019-12-09T20:29:16Z")
If you want to use C++, it is even easier.
```bash
git clone https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK.git
git checkout v5.1rc01
```
which I think can be combined as `git clone --branch v5.1rc01 https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK.git`
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### Author:  [@dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dzenanz)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2019, 8:30pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-install-itk-in-windows/2490/6 "2019-12-09T20:30:20Z")
If you don’t like `git`, you can download a [zipped-up source code](https://github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/ITK/archive/v5.1rc01.zip).
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### Author:  [@banikr](https://discourse.itk.org/u/banikr)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2019, 8:31pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-install-itk-in-windows/2490/7 "2019-12-09T20:31:07Z")
Thanks.
And are all the other installation process the same?
VS2019, CMake and everything?
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### Author:  [@dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dzenanz)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2019, 8:33pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-install-itk-in-windows/2490/8 "2019-12-09T20:33:27Z")
Yes, everything else should be the same. Moreover, if you previously used `git` to get the source code, you should now be able to do a `git pull`, do an incremental build in Visual Studio, and it should compile successfully.
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### Author:  [@banikr](https://discourse.itk.org/u/banikr)
#### Post date: [December 9, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-install-itk-in-windows/2490/9 "2019-12-09T21:45:43Z")
I tried to install but getting the following error:
Is it somehow related to environment path?
I was trying to run the hello world installation example.
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### Author:  [@dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dzenanz)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-install-itk-in-windows/2490/10 "2019-12-10T13:59:06Z")
You need to set `ITK_DIR` to the build path (or install path) of ITK. The correct folder has file `ITKConfig.cmake` in it.
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### Author:  [@banikr](https://discourse.itk.org/u/banikr)
#### Post date: [December 10, 2019, 6:40pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-install-itk-in-windows/2490/11 "2019-12-10T18:40:05Z")
Hi,
I solved it. Forgot to mention. It works now.
Thanks a lot.
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### Author:  [@Milad\_Rasooli](https://discourse.itk.org/u/Milad_Rasooli)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2024, 6:22pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-install-itk-in-windows/2490/12 "2024-09-03T18:22:32Z")
I also faced this problem, but I could not find the file you mentioned
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### Author:  [@dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dzenanz)
#### Post date: [September 3, 2024, 6:23pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/how-to-install-itk-in-windows/2490/13 "2024-09-03T18:23:28Z")
You need to compile ITK for `ITKConfig.cmake` to be created in the build folder.