InitError for a combination of ImageMagick and MATLAB

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I’d appreciate any help with this cryptic issue:
Building a package with just two dependencies, ImageMagick and MATLAB, will result in this:

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julia> using Kaka
[ Info: Recompiling stale cache file /home/yakir/.julia/compiled/v1.0/Kaka/RH5vt.ji for Kaka [9b64631b-9168-58e0-9795-6abd08b5997b]
ERROR: InitError: error compiling __init__: could not load library "/home/yakir/.julia/packages/ImageMagick/d5KBL/deps/usr/lib/libMagickWand-6.Q16.so"
/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libz.so.1: version `ZLIB_1.2.9' not found (required by /home/yakir/.julia/packages/ImageMagick/d5KBL/deps/usr/lib/libpng16.so.16)
Stacktrace:
 [1] _include_from_serialized(::String, ::Array{Any,1}) at ./loading.jl:630
 [2] macro expansion at ./logging.jl:312 [inlined]
 [3] _require_search_from_serialized(::Base.PkgId, ::String) at ./loading.jl:701
 [4] _tryrequire_from_serialized(::Base.PkgId, ::UInt64, ::Nothing) at ./loading.jl:645
 [5] _require_from_serialized(::String) at ./loading.jl:676
 [6] _require(::Base.PkgId) at ./logging.jl:317
 [7] require(::Base.PkgId) at ./loading.jl:855
 [8] macro expansion at ./logging.jl:311 [inlined]
 [9] require(::Module, ::Symbol) at ./loading.jl:837
during initialization of module ImageMagick

Kaka (excuse the name) Project.toml:

name = "Kaka"
uuid = "9b64631b-9168-58e0-9795-6abd08b5997b"
authors = ["yakir12 <12.yakir@gmail.com>"]
version = "0.1.0"

[deps]
ImageMagick = "6218d12a-5da1-5696-b52f-db25d2ecc6d1"
MATLAB = "10e44e05-a98a-55b3-a45b-ba969058deb6"

[extras]
Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"

[targets]
test = ["Test"]

and source:

module Kaka
using ImageMagick, MATLAB
end # module

I posted an issue in ImageMagick, but that might have been the wrong place?

2

More information about this bug can be found here and here.

Switching the order of the two packages did not resolve this issue for me.

3

A shot in the dark and only a temporary workaround if it works. Try to start Julia with

LD_PRELOAD=/home/yakir/.julia/packages/ImageMagick/d5KBL/deps/usr/lib/libz.so julia

to force loading the newer version of libz before any dependency manages to bring in the old system libz.

4

Worked! Thanks, I had no idea how to specify which libz julia should use. Awesome, thanks!