.. _Building:

Building VisIt_ from Sources
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In this chapter, we will discuss how to build VisIt_ from source code.
The building of VisIt_ is automated with the ``build_visit`` script.
It will build VisIt_ and all of VisIt_'s third party libraries.
It can be configured to build VisIt_ with a minimum of third party libraries to building VisIt_ with all of it's third party libraries.
This chapter describes how to build VisIt_, starting with the most simple case and then moving to more complex use cases.

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    :maxdepth: 1
    :numbered:

    Basic_Usage
    Advanced_Usage
    BuildingOnWindows/index
    BuildingOnMac/index
    Spack
    Building_Directly_With_CMake
    Linux_X11_Qt