# Building Julia on WSL

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-julia-on-wsl/71990>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [November 24, 2021, 3:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-julia-on-wsl/71990 "2021-11-24T03:05:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![BioTurboNick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bioturbonick/32/6380_2.png) [@BioTurboNick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BioTurboNick)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 3:05am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-julia-on-wsl/71990/1 "2021-11-24T03:05:06Z")

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I’m getting these errors when trying to cross-compile the Windows build of Julia on WSL:

```julia
002d:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk "libLLVM.dll" failed to initialize, aborting
002d:err:module:LdrInitializeThunk Initializing dlls for L"Z:\\mnt\\d\\repos\\julia\\usr\\tools\\llvm-config.exe" failed, status c0000005

```

What might I need to do here?

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**Author:** ![BioTurboNick](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/bioturbonick/32/6380_2.png) [@BioTurboNick](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/BioTurboNick)\
**Post date:** [November 24, 2021, 4:28pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/building-julia-on-wsl/71990/2 "2021-11-24T16:28:58Z")

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I think maybe installing cygwin just doesn’t mix well with building inside WSL. I got Julia to build on WSL on a different machine.