# Building snappy for Windows (HELP)

**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/building-snappy-for-windows-help/9463
**Category:** Community
**Tags:** os:windows
**Created:** [November 19, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/building-snappy-for-windows-help/9463 "2023-11-19T22:06:06Z")
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### Author: ![Reload](https://discourse.cmake.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Reload](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/Reload)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2023, 10:06pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/building-snappy-for-windows-help/9463/1 "2023-11-19T22:06:06Z")

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snappy - [GitHub - google/snappy: A fast compressor/decompressor](https://github.com/google/snappy)

When building with the parameters:  
cmake -DBUILD\_SHARED\_LIBS=ON -DCMAKE\_POSITION\_INDEPENDENT\_CODE=on .  
cmake --build .

Error occurs: LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file ‘Debug\snappy\_test\_support.lib’ [C:\snappy\build\snappy\_unittest.vcxproj]

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### Author: ![ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/b/ea5d25/32.png) [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [November 20, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/building-snappy-for-windows-help/9463/2 "2023-11-20T00:18:17Z")

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I would guess that snappy doesn’t export symbols properly. You can try passing `-DCMAKE_WINDOWS_EXPORT_ALL_SYMBOLS=ON`.

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### Author: ![Reload](https://discourse.cmake.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/e95f7d/32.png) [@Reload](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/Reload)
#### Post date: [November 21, 2023, 12:08am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/building-snappy-for-windows-help/9463/3 "2023-11-21T00:08:50Z")

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Thank you! Can you help me with this? [https://discourse.cmake.org/t/help-with-linking-snappy-to-leveldb-windows-pay-40/](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/help-with-linking-snappy-to-leveldb-windows-pay-40/)