# CMake cannot find MPI in standard installation path

**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-cannot-find-mpi-in-standard-installation-path/850
**Category:** Code
**Created:** [March 24, 2020, 11:04am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-cannot-find-mpi-in-standard-installation-path/850 "2020-03-24T11:04:25Z")
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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: [March 25, 2020, 11:37am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-cannot-find-mpi-in-standard-installation-path/850/6 "2020-03-25T11:37:41Z")

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The problem seems to be that `FindMPI` is not extracting the information directly from it properly or something. It is good that the wrappers do work though 🙂 .

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