Apple M1, M1 pro M1 Max and Julia developpers

giordano · October 30, 2021, 10:40am

It’s stalling

But I’m still not convinced that having to build a binary library for that is a good idea

github.com/TuringLang/Libtask.jl

Why not ccalling directly into libjulia instead of having `Libtask_jll`?

opened 03:04PM - 12 Jun 21 UTC

closed 11:17AM - 02 Dec 21 UTC

giordano

Maintaining a library like `Libtask_jll` which links to libjulia isn't super sim…ple as you need to have libjulia_jll available in the first place and then build against all different variations. Why don't you `ccall` directly into libjulia from Julia, instead of delegating the same work to an external library? This would have the advantage of having `Libtask.jl` more readily available on all platforms and versions of Julia without depending on external libraries.