Hi all, I am new to julia. I just started loving this language at first sight, Elegant ! My area of interest is windows desktop applications. I just set up all the beginning steps in atom and execute my Hello World app. But now, i want to convert this code to an exe file. There is no use of julia …

PackageCompilerX allows you to do this: https://juliacomputing.github.io/PackageCompilerX.jl/dev/apps.html

@vinod_kc first thanks for this question. Can you confirm whether the latest version of Package Compiler solves your problem? And if so, what has changed since October 2019?

Hi, interested too… I remember that beside using a setup.exe files to install Win softs… I did use sometimes MSI files instead for Windows OS installs. Would building an MSI file instead of an exe be a way to build Win executable files ? I’m no exe/msi builder specalist enough to answer that ! *…

I think (maybe wrong) we are lacking something that help new developers used to have build tools, usually embedded in the IDE, to produce a full sharable software bundle or “the current best we can do option”. All the suggestions I see here are relatively to dependent on how julia internal works (lo…

I was so excited about Julia so far. But when I read how difficult it will be to distribute programs to Windows users, I get disillusioned again. There are already such massive problems with Python that Python can’t be used most of the time, because you can’t create an executable with it. At least n…

While I mostly agree with you, one minor quibble is that Julia can be really nice to use on a linux server since the “install” is just having a folder somewhere. No Admin required.

Same for Windows - no admin rights required to install Julia.

That lack of Internet connection is a valid problem. I wonder if it’s possible to set up a local package server?

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How to create an exe file from julia code?

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