# 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:** ![jdad](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jdad/32/4739_2.png) [@jdad](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/jdad)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2022, 10:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/glmakie-and-plots-fail-to-precompile-under-julia-1-8-4/92087/4 "2022-12-25T10:22:09Z")

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Seeing the list of \*\_dll that failed recompiling, I remind of my own problem earlier -  
[https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cygwin-mishap-with-julia-1-9-0-alpha1-plots-dlopen-cant-open-libcairo-2-dll/91179](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/cygwin-mishap-with-julia-1-9-0-alpha1-plots-dlopen-cant-open-libcairo-2-dll/91179)

You could try to use @giordano suggestion to debug the problem, see in the above thread :

> Instead, try this:

```julia
]add DependencyWalker Cairo_jll
using DependencyWalker
using Cairo_jll # This will fail, it's ok, but it's needed to load the dependencies
Library("C:\\Users\\davidj\\.julia\\artifacts\\3aff78028a0bb2ad40ebc3ae7e465a52dcbe2730\\bin\\libcairo-2.dll")

```

> This should hopefully show what modules cannot be found.

(Thanks again @giordano for the tip)

Hope it could help,

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