# Gmsh package Windows incompatibility

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gmsh-package-windows-incompatibility/47460
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** package, gmsh
**Created:** [September 29, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gmsh-package-windows-incompatibility/47460 "2020-09-29T03:01:19Z")
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#### Post date: [September 29, 2020, 3:01am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/gmsh-package-windows-incompatibility/47460/1 "2020-09-29T03:01:19Z")

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I’m considering using Julia to make a few small tools for my colleagues and I, but I’ve run into an issue. The Gmsh package isn’t compatible with windows, however there is a work around given in this old thread:

> [@Failure to add package Gmsh](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/failure-to-add-package-gmsh/30652):
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> I fail to install package Gmsh. After Pkg.add(“Gmsh”), using Gmsh and Pkg.build(“Gmsh”) produce the errors below. I am an administrator on my Windows 10 environment running Julia 1.2 yet Pkg.build command seems to think otherwise: “On Windows, creating file symlinks requires Administrator privileges”. Any help appreciated. -Eric ERROR: LoadError: Gmsh not installed properly, run Pkg.build(“Gmsh”), restart Julia and try again Stacktrace: [1] error(::String) at .\error.jl:33 [2] top-level…

Downloading the SDK and an using `include("...gmsh.jl")` works, but I was hoping for something cleaner. Is there a way to get the package to work on Windows with just `using Gmsh`? Or, do I just need to make sure that anywhere my code is run, the SDK is downloaded and the path is known?

Would something like BinaryBuilder work?