HTTP.jl 2.0 not pre-compiling

General Usage
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Precompilation of Reseau.jl completes as expected but then HTTP.jl precompilation just hangs. I’ve tried it multiple times and each time it just sits with the spinning disk indefinitely. It didn’t work on Friday and I just left it spinning. It was still spinning this morning.

   Updating registry at `C:\Users\TGebbels\.julia\registries\General.toml`
   Installed Reseau ─ v1.1.3
     Project No packages added to or removed from `C:\Users\TGebbels\OneDrive - The National Lottery Community Fund\Documents\DCMS Database\Project.toml`
    Updating `C:\Users\TGebbels\...\Manifest.toml`
  [802f3686] ↑ Reseau v1.1.2 ⇒ v1.1.3
┌ Warning: attempting to remove probably stale pidfile━━━━━━━━━ 0/2
│   path = "C:\\Users\\TGebbels\\.julia\\compiled\\v1.12\\HTTP\\zXWya_lPabk.ji.pidfile"
└ @ FileWatching.Pidfile C:\Users\TGebbels\.julia\juliaup\julia-1.12.6+0.x64.w64.mingw32\share\julia\stdlib\v1.12\FileWatching\src\pidfile.jl:250
Precompiling packages  ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━╺━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1/2
  ◐ HTTP

I’m working in VSCode on Win 11.

Status `C:\Users\TGebbels\OneDrive - The National Lottery Community Fund\Documents\DCMS Database\Project.toml`
  [336ed68f] CSV v0.10.16
  [a93c6f00] DataFrames v1.8.2
  [cd3eb016] HTTP v2.0.0
  [0f8b85d8] JSON3 v1.14.3
  [08abe8d2] PrettyTables v3.3.2
  [2913bbd2] StatsBase v0.34.11
  [69024149] StringEncodings v0.3.7
  [5c2747f8] URIs v1.6.1
  [fdbf4ff8] XLSX v0.11.10
  [49080126] ZipArchives v2.6.0

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.12.6
Commit 15346901f0 (2026-04-09 19:20 UTC)
Build Info:
  Official https://julialang.org release
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: 8 × 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1185G7 @ 3.00GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LLVM: libLLVM-18.1.7 (ORCJIT, tigerlake)
  GC: Built with stock GC
Threads: 4 default, 1 interactive, 4 GC (on 8 virtual cores)
Environment:
  JULIA_EDITOR = code
  JULIA_VSCODE_REPL = 1
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 4

Is it just me? What can I try next?

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Well, to answer my own question, I launched Julia from a windows cmd prompt:

(...) pkg> up
    Updating registry at `C:\Users\TGebbels\.julia\registries\General.toml`
     Project No packages added to or removed from `C:\Users\TGebbels\...\Project.toml`
    Manifest No packages added to or removed from `C:\Users\TGebbels\...\Manifest.toml`
Precompiling packages finished.
  1 dependency successfully precompiled in 40 seconds. 80 already precompiled.

So I wonder why it didn’t work in VSCode?