# 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")
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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: [January 15, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://discourse.itk.org/t/itk-include-directories-for-vs2017/589/4 "2018-01-15T16:43:08Z")

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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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