# How to create executable from julia?
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-executable-from-julia/31422
**Category:** New to Julia
**Tags:** package
**Created:** [November 23, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-executable-from-julia/31422 "2019-11-23T14:23:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@phaneendra\_muttigi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/phaneendra_muttigi)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2019, 2:23pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-executable-from-julia/31422/1 "2019-11-23T14:23:39Z")
Packagecompiler instruction are not much clear ,when used the command it just ended up opening in atom editor without any compilation strange.
i am almost lost ,can any one help statically compiling Julia scripts.
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### Author:  [@pixel27](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/pixel27)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2019, 4:22pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-executable-from-julia/31422/2 "2019-11-23T16:22:15Z")
Are you just trying to run `juliac.jl`? If you are I suspect you just have .jl files mapped to open in atom. Try running `julia juliac.jl` instead.
Please be aware that the compiler is still a work in progress so you might not be impressed with the size of the resulting file…
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### Author:  [@xiaodai](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/xiaodai)
#### Post date: [November 24, 2019, 1:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-executable-from-julia/31422/3 "2019-11-24T01:26:21Z")
I know @kristoffer.carlsson is working on a series of article that’s shrared on Slack #static-compilation but the gist is secret so I am not sure if the author wants to share it in public yet.