# Unable to configure and build in windows 10

**URL:** https://community.mrtrix.org/t/unable-to-configure-and-build-in-windows-10/3308
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [February 15, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://community.mrtrix.org/t/unable-to-configure-and-build-in-windows-10/3308 "2020-02-15T20:50:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![appollosputnik](https://community.mrtrix.org/user_avatar/community.mrtrix.org/appollosputnik/32/2476_2.png) [@appollosputnik](https://community.mrtrix.org/u/appollosputnik)
#### Post date: [February 15, 2020, 8:50pm UTC](https://community.mrtrix.org/t/unable-to-configure-and-build-in-windows-10/3308/1 "2020-02-15T20:50:31Z")

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Hi folks

I am a newbie in mrtrix3 but I am going to work on it for long term. I am unable to configure and build mrtrix3 for windows.

While configuring it shows an error of python. the script seem to be an unix like script so it shows errors. I am pasting here the error.

 ![image](https://community.mrtrix.org/uploads/default/original/2X/8/8fa63c4ed15c08cc49f2c14f9eb97120dd675dc6.png)

Please help me sort out this error. I will appreciate if anyone advices.

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### Author: ![jdtournier](https://community.mrtrix.org/user_avatar/community.mrtrix.org/jdtournier/32/2594_2.png) [@jdtournier](https://community.mrtrix.org/u/jdtournier)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2020, 11:22am UTC](https://community.mrtrix.org/t/unable-to-configure-and-build-in-windows-10/3308/2 "2020-02-21T11:22:00Z")

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Is this problem still current? It looks like there’s a conflict between the version of python installed on the system and the MSYS2-supplied version. Should be a simple matter of making sure that version is not in the PATH when launching the MSYS2 shell.

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### Author: ![rsmith](https://community.mrtrix.org/user_avatar/community.mrtrix.org/rsmith/32/2672_2.png) [@rsmith](https://community.mrtrix.org/u/rsmith)
#### Post date: [March 1, 2020, 5:44am UTC](https://community.mrtrix.org/t/unable-to-configure-and-build-in-windows-10/3308/3 "2020-03-01T05:44:27Z")

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There’s also a chance that this could arise due to clicking on the wrong MSYS2 shell shortcut. The [online installation documentation](https://mrtrix.readthedocs.io/en/latest/installation/windows_install.html) states that specifically the “ **MinGW-w64 Win64 shell** ” shortcut needs to be used.