# Delivering Julia code to production computers

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**Created:** [January 13, 2019, 9:46am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/delivering-julia-code-to-production-computers/19586 "2019-01-13T09:46:44Z")\
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Popularity is not a reason to dismiss a reasonably well-established approach to bundling applications, their dependencies, and associated configurations. Docker works decently well in Windows via Docker-machine from what I hear.

You could also put your application in a VM and ship that; there’s plenty of precedent out there, even though it’s not the most efficient approach.

To expand on @tk3369 's suggested approach, there was some discussion about a related question here (permalinking my response because I consider it a solution to this problem as well):

> [@Easy packaging of a complete environment for running a course?](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/easy-packaging-of-a-complete-environment-for-running-a-course/19497/11):
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> Why not just make your own depot, install all the packages you need within there (and instantiate or not depending on whether you want it to be tiny or huge), tar+gz or zip it and send it off to students? I don’t think you’re going to get around doing the initial precompile of all packages, but how much time does that really buy you anyway? 5 minutes maybe? Edit: Note that making your own depot is as simple as running JULIA\_DEPOT\_PATH=/my/depot/path julia and running ] up.

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