# How to create standalone applications for Windows with a \[G\]UI in Julia 1.11 or 1.12

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [April 7, 2025, 11:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-standalone-applications-for-windows-with-a-g-ui-in-julia-1-11-or-1-12/127823 "2025-04-07T23:09:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![Benny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/49beb7/32.png) [@Benny](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Benny)\
**Post date:** [April 16, 2025, 5:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-standalone-applications-for-windows-with-a-g-ui-in-julia-1-11-or-1-12/127823/74 "2025-04-16T17:18:57Z")

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> **Section manually split into dedicated topic on Windows installer**
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> > [@Challenges with installing Julia on Windows](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/challenges-with-installing-julia-on-windows/128133/2):
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> > Julia is (and should be) installed in user space on all platforms.
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> Regarding this meaning of user space, doesn’t Users/Public count? Software going there or especially C:/Program Files doesn’t sound out of the question. I’m ignorant of the exact drawbacks and when it matters more, though, is it about security? I recall [similar discussions](https://superuser.com/questions/656003/why-is-python-for-windows-not-installed-in-programfiles-c-program-files) about installing CPython [on Windows](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/44749636/what-path-to-install-python-3-6-to-on-windows).

> [@uwestoehr](#):
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> Take the case of _PackageCompiler_…Now I see that Julia 1.11.5 was released and despite this ongoing discussion, the issue is still not mentioned in the release notes

Not sure if you’re implying this exactly, but PackageCompiler issues wouldn’t and shouldn’t be mentioned in the release notes of its dependencies, including base Julia. Independent developments are responsible for public communication in their own release notes or probably somewhere more immediate for a regression caused by a dependency instead of their own release. We don’t want a world where updating 1 package of interest demands re-reading something for each and every dependency.

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