How to launch Julia from a customized script in Vscode

New to Julia
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Dear there,
These days I was trying to launch Julia from a script (in my customized path) that defines the JULIA_DEPOT_PATH and Executable_Path in Vscode. However, it seems that the julia_extension is not able to find the settings in the script after click (ctrl+shift+P) to run “Julia: Start REPL”.
Nothing happens after this action:

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Would be very grateful if there is any clue to address my confusion…

-Weijie

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It would be helpful if you could provide more information. What does your script look like? How are you telling VSCode to use that script?

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Thanks for the response! :beers:

So the script is called launch_julia_v171 in Path /home/wj/julia/, with contents:

export JULIA_DEPOT_PATH=/home/wj/julia/julia_depots
/home/wj/juliahome/julia-1.7.1/bin/julia

Then in VScode Julia extensions, the setting is:

{
    "julia.environmentPath": "/home/wj/julia/julia_depots/environments/",
    "julia.persistentSession.enabled": true,
    "julia.executablePath": "/home/wj/julia/launch_julia_v171"
}

The executablePath works on the terminal, but unfortunately it does not work in VScode.

Thanks,
Weijie

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Try

export JULIA_DEPOT_PATH=/home/wj/julia/julia_depots
/home/wj/juliahome/julia-1.7.1/bin/julia "$@"

instead. It’s important you pipe all arguments through to Julia (check that ./launch_julia_v171 -v works, for example).

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Hi there,

Super cool it works after adding “$@”, although I do not get the underlying logic…
Thanks a million! :beers: :beers:

-Weijie

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"$@" expands to the parameters that your script is called with. These needs to be passed on to the actual/real Julia executable.

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