# CMake Error: The source directory does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
**URL:** https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-error-the-source-directory-does-not-appear-to-contain-cmakelists-txt/7581
**Category:** Usage
**Tags:** os:windows
**Created:** [March 2, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-error-the-source-directory-does-not-appear-to-contain-cmakelists-txt/7581 "2023-03-02T02:36:00Z")
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### Author:  [@CNCG](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/CNCG)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2023, 2:36am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-error-the-source-directory-does-not-appear-to-contain-cmakelists-txt/7581/1 "2023-03-02T02:36:00Z")
CMake Error: The source directory “C:/Development/wsbuild64” does not appear to contain CMakeLists.txt.
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2023, 3:26am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-error-the-source-directory-does-not-appear-to-contain-cmakelists-txt/7581/2 "2023-03-02T03:26:18Z")
How did you try to run CMake?
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### Author:  [@CNCG](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/CNCG)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2023, 3:35am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-error-the-source-directory-does-not-appear-to-contain-cmakelists-txt/7581/3 "2023-03-02T03:35:34Z")
I want to build an enviroment about wireshark compile, I follow the official document untill the last step,see as the fig. but errors occured
the error af follow:
CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:1235 (find\_package):
By not providing “FindQt5Core.cmake” in CMAKE\_MODULE\_PATH this project has
asked CMake to find a package configuration file provided by “Qt5Core”, but
CMake did not find one.
Could not find a package configuration file provided by “Qt5Core” with any
of the following names:
```
Qt5CoreConfig.cmake
qt5core-config.cmake
```
Add the installation prefix of “Qt5Core” to CMAKE\_PREFIX\_PATH or set
“Qt5Core\_DIR” to a directory containing one of the above files. If
“Qt5Core” provides a separate development package or SDK, be sure it has
been installed.
– Configuring incomplete, errors occurred!
THANKS A LOT!
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2023, 5:11am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-error-the-source-directory-does-not-appear-to-contain-cmakelists-txt/7581/4 "2023-03-02T05:11:44Z")
You’ll need to get Qt5 for Windows. Qt has an installer you can use for that, but there are also other ways such as `vcpkg` and the like.
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### Author:  [@CNCG](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/CNCG)
#### Post date: [March 2, 2023, 5:55am UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-error-the-source-directory-does-not-appear-to-contain-cmakelists-txt/7581/5 "2023-03-02T05:55:21Z")
I’ ve already got qt5, but it still error.
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### Author:  [@ben.boeckel](https://discourse.cmake.org/u/ben.boeckel)
#### Post date: [March 4, 2023, 6:23pm UTC](https://discourse.cmake.org/t/cmake-error-the-source-directory-does-not-appear-to-contain-cmakelists-txt/7581/6 "2023-03-04T18:23:41Z")
Did you tell CMake where to find this Qt5 you have? You’ll need to set something like `Qt5_DIR` to `…/Qt5.9.5/…/cmake/Qt5`. I can’t remember the bit under the directory you have there that needs to be used, but the stem is `cmake/Qt5` at least.