# Building glfw 3?

**URL:** <https://discourse.glfw.org/t/building-glfw-3/287>\
**Category:** support\
**Created:** [March 24, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/building-glfw-3/287 "2011-03-24T16:37:33Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 24, 2011, 4:37pm UTC](https://discourse.glfw.org/t/building-glfw-3/287/1 "2011-03-24T16:37:33Z")

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**[kohaistyle](https://sourceforge.net/u/kohaistyle/)** wrote on [Thursday, March 24, 2011](https://sourceforge.net/p/glfw/discussion/247562/thread/ef517f61/#d3f8):

OK, back to coding again, i decided to check out my fav’ gl framework of all  
times …  
But the build system moves to CMake : ok good, so i “Cmake .” and it spits all  
those vsproj files.

BUT i’m using mingw … so where are my makefiles ? 😃

Any help pliz ( yup, i’m a noob at cmake )