# ITK include directories for VS2017
**URL:** https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-include-directories-for-vs2017/589
**Category:** Beginner Questions
**Created:** [January 14, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-include-directories-for-vs2017/589 "2018-01-14T17:19:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@ankita](https://discourse.itk.org/u/ankita)
#### Post date: [January 14, 2018, 5:19pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-include-directories-for-vs2017/589/1 "2018-01-14T17:19:14Z")
Respect sir,
As I am new to ITk software,I want to know which
additional directories has to be copied in vs 2017 from itk. I request you
to please send me a list of include files to be pasted in project
properties of vs and the directories linking it. So that my project gets
compiled.
Thank you.
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### Author:  [@jhlegarreta](https://discourse.itk.org/u/jhlegarreta)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2018, 6:59am UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-include-directories-for-vs2017/589/2 "2018-01-15T06:59:44Z")
Dear Ankita,
thanks for your interest in ITK !
Please, bear in mind that your question is not related to the “Gearing up for ITK5” topic of this thread. We would be pleased to answer your question, but for the sake of coherency and clarity, please post your question on a separate topic, and identify it appropriately. That way when other community members see the topic:
- Your question will get more chances to be answered by other community members.
- Other community members having the same question will be more likely to find the solution.
You can have a look at our community guidelines [here](https://discourse.itk.org/guidelines), and [this section](https://discourse.itk.org/guidelines#be-civil) is of special interest for this case.
Thank you
Edit: the question has been moved to a new thread.
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### Author:  [@dzenanz](https://discourse.itk.org/u/dzenanz)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-include-directories-for-vs2017/589/4 "2018-01-15T16:43:08Z")
@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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### Author:  [@ankita](https://discourse.itk.org/u/ankita)
#### Post date: [January 15, 2018, 6:01pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-include-directories-for-vs2017/589/5 "2018-01-15T18:01:08Z")
Thank you sir.