# Error during generation with Visual Studio
**URL:** https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-during-generation-with-visual-studio/23345
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [May 9, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-during-generation-with-visual-studio/23345 "2022-05-09T13:02:17Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Shoshoda](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Shoshoda)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2022, 1:02pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-during-generation-with-visual-studio/23345/1 "2022-05-09T13:02:17Z")
Hello everyone,
I’m new to 3d slicer so maybe I’m doing it wrong but this is the error I get :
I tried several time to build the project with CMAKE and Visual Studio on two differents computers(Windows 10 and 11)
Regards,
Michael
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### Author:  [@Shoshoda](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Shoshoda)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-during-generation-with-visual-studio/23345/2 "2022-05-09T13:04:57Z")
Hello everyone,
I’m new to 3d slicer so maybe I’m doing it wrong but this is the error I get :
I tried several time to build the project with CMAKE and Visual Studio on two differents computers(Windows 10 and 11)
Regards,
Michael
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### Author:  [@Dwij\_Mistry](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Dwij_Mistry)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2022, 3:52pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-during-generation-with-visual-studio/23345/3 "2022-05-09T15:52:37Z")
@Shoshoda are you getting only, this ONE error?
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### Author:  [@Shoshoda](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Shoshoda)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2022, 4:29pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-during-generation-with-visual-studio/23345/4 "2022-05-09T16:29:15Z")
Yes only this one, on both computer
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### Author:  [@cpinter](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/cpinter)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2022, 8:50am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-during-generation-with-visual-studio/23345/5 "2022-05-10T08:50:01Z")
Still, this is very little information. A full log would definitely help.
Has the build otherwise succeed btw? Because I have seen similar errors (although I don’t speak French and from your screenshot I cannot copy-paste, so cannot say if the message itself is the same or not) in otherwise successful builds that then allowed running and debugging Slicer without problems.
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### Author:  [@Shoshoda](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Shoshoda)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2022, 12:45pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-during-generation-with-visual-studio/23345/6 "2022-05-10T12:45:20Z")
> [@cpinter](#):
>
> Has the build otherwise succeed btw? Because I have seen similar errors (although I don’t speak French and from your screenshot I cannot copy-paste, so cannot say if the message itself is the same or not) in otherwise successful builds that then allowed running and debugging Slicer without problems.
Yes sorry I didn’t notice that my screenshot was in french. There is copy-paste of the screenshot :
|Erreur|MSB8066|la build personnalisée de ‘C:\D\S4R\CMakeFiles\26b24c13142eddf123c97e3494499225\Slicer-configure.rule;C:\D\S4R\CMakeFiles\26b24c13142eddf123c97e3494499225\Slicer-build.rule;C:\D\S4R\CMakeFiles\26b24c13142eddf123c97e3494499225\Slicer-forceconfigure.rule;C:\D\S4R\CMakeFiles\26b24c13142eddf123c97e3494499225\Slicer-install.rule;C:\D\S4R\CMakeFiles\d0fbb327fb5d8976f542b004b1325aa2\Slicer-complete.rule;C:\D\S4R\CMakeFiles\dbe9d635f197b17f63b9c895eaab2164\Slicer.rule’ s’est arrêtée. Code 1.|Slicer|C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets|245||
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And here are the logs I get :
Performing configure step for ‘Slicer’
loading initial cache file C:/D/S4R/Slicer-prefix/tmp/Slicer-cache-Release.cmake
– Setting C++ standard
– Setting C++ standard - C++14
– Selecting Windows SDK version 10.0.22000.0 to target Windows 10.0.19043.
Slicer should not be configured & built in the Slicer source directory
You must run cmake in a build directory.
For example:
mkdir Slicer-sandbox ; cd Slicer-sandbox
git clone [GitHub - Slicer/Slicer: Multi-platform, free open source software for visualization and image computing.](https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer.git) # or download & unpack the source tarball
mkdir Slicer-SuperBuild
this will create the following directory structure
Slicer-sandbox
±-Slicer
±-Slicer-SuperBuild
Then you can proceed to configure and build
by using the following commands
cd Slicer-SuperBuild
cmake …/Slicer # or ccmake, or cmake-gui
make
NOTE: Given that you already tried to make an in-source build
CMake have already created several files & directories
in your source tree. run ‘git status’ to find them and
remove them by doing:
```
cd Slicer-sandbox/Slicer
git clean -n -d
git clean -f -d
git checkout --
```
CMake Error at CMake/PreventInSourceBuilds.cmake:42 (message):
Quitting configuration
Call Stack (most recent call first):
CMake/PreventInSourceBuilds.cmake:46 (AssureOutOfSourceBuilds)
CMakeLists.txt:93 (include)
– Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
See also “C:/D/S4/CMakeFiles/CMakeOutput.log”.
C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Microsoft\VC\v170\Microsoft.CppCommon.targets(245,5): error MSB8066: la build personnalisée de ‘C:\D\S4R\CMakeFiles\26b24c13142eddf123c97e3494499225\Slicer-configure.rule;C:\D\S4R\CMakeFiles\26b24c13142eddf123c97e3494499225\Slicer-build.rule;C:\D\S4R\CMakeFiles\26b24c13142eddf123c97e3494499225\Slicer-forceconfigure.rule;C:\D\S4R\CMakeFiles\26b24c13142eddf123c97e3494499225\Slicer-install.rule;C:\D\S4R\CMakeFiles\d0fbb327fb5d8976f542b004b1325aa2\Slicer-complete.rule;C:\D\S4R\CMakeFiles\dbe9d635f197b17f63b9c895eaab2164\Slicer.rule’ s’est arrêtée. Code 1.
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### Author:  [@cpinter](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/cpinter)
#### Post date: [May 10, 2022, 3:45pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-during-generation-with-visual-studio/23345/7 "2022-05-10T15:45:33Z")
> [@Shoshoda](#):
>
> Slicer should not be configured & built in the Slicer source directory
This looks like a good next point of attention.
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### Author:  [@Shoshoda](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/Shoshoda)
#### Post date: [May 11, 2022, 3:31pm UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-during-generation-with-visual-studio/23345/8 "2022-05-11T15:31:38Z")
So it’s now working !
I was working on two different folder like the doc say : C:\D\S4 and C:\D\S4R
but It’s wasn’t working.
So I tried C:\D\S4\Slicer with the sources code and it’s finaly working fine.
Thanks for your help
Michael
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### Author:  [@lassoan](https://discourse.slicer.org/u/lassoan)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 3:43am UTC](https://discourse.slicer.org/t/error-during-generation-with-visual-studio/23345/9 "2022-05-12T03:43:02Z")
> [@Shoshoda](#):
>
> C:\D\S4 and C:\D\S4R
> but It’s wasn’t working.
> So I tried C:\D\S4\Slicer with the sources code and it’s finaly working fine.
It is great to hear this!
It seems that the problem was that you checked out the source code into `C:\D\S4\Slicer` instead of `C:\D\S4`. This most likely happened because you have forgot the `.` from the command that was described in the [build instructions](https://slicer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/developer_guide/build_instructions/windows.html#set-up-source-and-build-folders): `git clone https://github.com/Slicer/Slicer.git .` (if you don’t have the `.` in the end then a `Slicer` subfolder is created).