# Error while compiling avro required to built fetpapi on windows

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**Category:** FETPAPI\
**Created:** [November 30, 2022, 9:58am UTC](https://discourse.f2i-consulting.com/t/error-while-compiling-avro-required-to-built-fetpapi-on-windows/216 "2022-11-30T09:58:52Z")\
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**Author:** ![sidrah855](https://discourse.f2i-consulting.com/user_avatar/discourse.f2i-consulting.com/sidrah855/32/77_2.png) [@sidrah855](https://discourse.f2i-consulting.com/u/sidrah855)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2022, 9:58am UTC](https://discourse.f2i-consulting.com/t/error-while-compiling-avro-required-to-built-fetpapi-on-windows/216/1 "2022-11-30T09:58:52Z")

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Hello @philippeVerney

I am trying to compile dependencies for fetpapi on window. boost(1\_73\_0) was installed successfully but while compiling avro(1.11.1) Cmake-GUI not picking up boost

 ![MicrosoftTeams-image (2)](https://discourse.f2i-consulting.com/uploads/default/original/1X/d10078f3f4617a96a6ececd18f7657025e418fd4.png)  
Could you please guide where is the issue.  
Thanks,  
Sidrah

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**Author:** ![philippeVerney](https://discourse.f2i-consulting.com/user_avatar/discourse.f2i-consulting.com/philippeverney/32/29_2.png) [@philippeVerney](https://discourse.f2i-consulting.com/u/philippeVerney)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2022, 11:26am UTC](https://discourse.f2i-consulting.com/t/error-while-compiling-avro-required-to-built-fetpapi-on-windows/216/2 "2022-11-30T11:26:24Z")

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Hi @sidrah855  
As the documentation (ie. README) states, your errors are expected :

```
Click on "Configure" button and select your favorite compiler : it will raise several errors.
give real path and files to the following cmake variables:

BOOST
    Boost_INCLUDE_DIR : the directory where you can find the directory named "boost" which contain all BOOST headers
AVRO
    AVRO_INCLUDE_DIR : where the "avro" directory containing all AVRO headers is located
    (ONLY FOR WINDOWS) AVRO_LIBRARY_DEBUG : Optional, only used by Visual studio Debug configuration, the Avro debug library you want to link to.
    AVRO_LIBRARY_RELEASE : the AVRO system library you want to link to.

```

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**Author:** ![philippeVerney](https://discourse.f2i-consulting.com/user_avatar/discourse.f2i-consulting.com/philippeverney/32/29_2.png) [@philippeVerney](https://discourse.f2i-consulting.com/u/philippeVerney)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2022, 11:30am UTC](https://discourse.f2i-consulting.com/t/error-while-compiling-avro-required-to-built-fetpapi-on-windows/216/3 "2022-11-30T11:30:08Z")

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Oups sorry I did not notice that you wanted to build avro and not fetpapi.  
**I guess the avro forum would better fit for this question.**  
AVRO is a bit hard to build on windows as far as I remember.

You may understand how we build it looking at our CI : [fetpapi/github-actions.yml at main · F2I-Consulting/fetpapi · GitHub](https://github.com/F2I-Consulting/fetpapi/blob/main/.github/workflows/github-actions.yml) especailly lines 14 to 24

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**Author:** ![sidrah855](https://discourse.f2i-consulting.com/user_avatar/discourse.f2i-consulting.com/sidrah855/32/77_2.png) [@sidrah855](https://discourse.f2i-consulting.com/u/sidrah855)\
**Post date:** [November 30, 2022, 11:42am UTC](https://discourse.f2i-consulting.com/t/error-while-compiling-avro-required-to-built-fetpapi-on-windows/216/4 "2022-11-30T11:42:41Z")

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Thanks for the information @philippeVerney .