# GLMakie and Plots fail to precompile under Julia 1.8.4

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-and-plots-fail-to-precompile-under-julia-1-8-4/92087>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** precompilation, update, plots, glmakie\
**Created:** [December 24, 2022, 2:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-and-plots-fail-to-precompile-under-julia-1-8-4/92087 "2022-12-24T14:09:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 9:13pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-and-plots-fail-to-precompile-under-julia-1-8-4/92087/15 "2022-12-25T21:13:22Z")

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> [@joa-quim](#):
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> and the error messages don’t help

Agreed, bu note that error messages come from the operating system, that’s why I had to write `DependencyWalker.jl`: operating systems, basically all of them, don’t tell you which libraries can’t be loaded even though they know it since they just looked for them.

@mkoculak @tt1234567 @matnbo or anyone else who can reproduce this problem, without running julia with admin priviliges, do you have the file `joinpath(CompilerSupportLibraries_jll.artifact_dir, "bin", "libssp-0.dll")` (you need to have the `CompilerSupportLibraries_jll` package loaded to to do this). If so, can you do

```julia
using CompilerSupportLibraries_jll, Libdl
dlopen(joinpath(CompilerSupportLibraries_jll.artifact_dir, "bin", "libssp-0.dll"))

```

? If so, I have no clue why `libssp-0.dll` can’t be loaded automatically.

Also, do note that `MSIMG32.dll` is a Windows system library, if it can’t be found we can do next to nothing about it. Do you have it in your system? I mentioned [elsewhere](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cygwin-mishap-with-julia-1-9-0-alpha1-plots-dlopen-cant-open-libcairo-2-dll/91179/4) that this library should be part of the Microsoft Graphical Device Interface (GDI), do you have this component in your system?

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