# Building a Dockerfile with packages

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-a-dockerfile-with-packages/37272
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** question, docker
**Created:** [April 9, 2020, 10:00am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-a-dockerfile-with-packages/37272 "2020-04-09T10:00:33Z")
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#### Post date: [April 9, 2020, 5:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-a-dockerfile-with-packages/37272/4 "2020-04-09T17:06:01Z")

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> [@Julia packages with Singularity](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-packages-with-singularity/19883/16):
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> I just encountered the same problems, and I believe I have found a workable solution. First of all, to the command to do the procompilation during build is Base.compilecache, which is a bit particular in that it requires a package identifier as argument, so I found that e.g. Base.compilecache(Base.identify\_package("FileIO")) works to precompile. That being said, for optimal performance the precompilation should probably happen on the system where the container is running, not on the system t…

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