Installing Julia from source on WSL halts for an infinite time

I have been trying to install Julia from the source on WSL by following the steps mentioned here - https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/doc/src/devdocs/build/windows.md - but the installation stops in between and halts there for an infinite time.

The steps that I followed -

  1. Run -
apt-get install wine-stable gcc wget p7zip-full winbind mingw-w64 gfortran-mingw-w64
dpkg --add-architecture i386 && apt-get update && apt-get install wine32 # add sudo to each if needed
# switch all of the following to their "-posix" variants (interactively):
for pkg in i686-w64-mingw32-g++ i686-w64-mingw32-gcc i686-w64-mingw32-gfortran x86_64-w64-mingw32-g++ x86_64-w64-mingw32-gcc x86_64-w64-mingw32-gfortran; do sudo update-alternatives --config $pkg; done
  1. Run -
echo 'XC_HOST = x86_64-w64-mingw32' > Make.user
  1. Make -
make -j 4

Here are the logs, nothing happens after Execution --- 44.306832 seconds 19.8905% -

Creating usr/etc/julia/startup.jl
Copying in usr/share/man/man1/julia.1
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/contrib/install.sh 755 /mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/contrib/julia-config.jl /mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/usr/share/julia/mkdir -p bin include lib lib/pkgconfig logs share/doc/mpfr share/doc/mpfr/examples share/info share/licenses/MPFR 
mkdir -p bin include logs/SuiteSparse share/licenses/SuiteSparse 
mkdir -p bin include lib logs share/licenses/Zlib share/man/man3 share/pkgconfig 
mkdir -p bin logs 
mkdir -p . bin include include/uv lib lib/pkgconfig logs logs/LibUV share share/licenses share/licenses/LibUV 
mkdir -p . bin bin/pkgconfig include include/openlibm logs logs/OpenLibm share share/licenses share/licenses/OpenLibm 
mkdir -p bin logs share/licenses/dSFMT 
mkdir -p . bin include include/libblastrampoline include/libblastrampoline/ILP64 include/libblastrampoline/ILP64/aarch64-linux-gnu include/libblastrampoline/ILP64/aarch64-linux-musl include/libblastrampoline/ILP64/armv7l-linux-gnueabihf include/libblastrampoline/ILP64/armv7l-linux-musleabihf include/libblastrampoline/ILP64/common include/libblastrampoline/ILP64/i686-linux-gnu include/libblastrampoline/ILP64/i686-linux-musl include/libblastrampoline/ILP64/i686-w64-mingw32 include/libblastrampoline/ILP64/powerpc64le-linux-gnu include/libblastrampoline/ILP64/x86_64-apple-darwin include/libblastrampoline/ILP64/x86_64-linux-gnu include/libblastrampoline/ILP64/x86_64-linux-musl include/libblastrampoline/ILP64/x86_64-unknown-freebsd include/libblastrampoline/ILP64/x86_64-w64-mingw32 include/libblastrampoline/LP64 include/libblastrampoline/LP64/aarch64-linux-gnu include/libblastrampoline/LP64/aarch64-linux-musl include/libblastrampoline/LP64/armv7l-linux-gnueabihf include/libblastrampoline/LP64/armv7l-linux-musleabihf include/libblastrampoline/LP64/common include/libblastrampoline/LP64/i686-linux-gnu include/libblastrampoline/LP64/i686-linux-musl include/libblastrampoline/LP64/i686-w64-mingw32 include/libblastrampoline/LP64/powerpc64le-linux-gnu include/libblastrampoline/LP64/x86_64-apple-darwin include/libblastrampoline/LP64/x86_64-linux-gnu include/libblastrampoline/LP64/x86_64-linux-musl include/libblastrampoline/LP64/x86_64-unknown-freebsd include/libblastrampoline/LP64/x86_64-w64-mingw32 include/libblastrampoline/common lib logs logs/libblastrampoline share share/licenses share/licenses/libblastrampoline
mkdir -p bin include lib lib/pkgconfig logs share/doc/pcre2 share/doc/pcre2/html share/licenses/PCRE2 share/man/man1 share/man/man3 
mkdir -p . bin logs logs/CompilerSupportLibraries share share/licenses share/licenses/CompilerSupportLibraries 
mkdir -p . bin include lib lib/cmake lib/cmake/openblas lib/pkgconfig logs logs/OpenBLAS share share/licenses share/licenses/OpenBLAS 
mkdir -p bin include lib lib/pkgconfig logs/GMP share/info share/licenses/GMP 
mkdir -p . bin include lib lib/cmake lib/cmake/libssh2 lib/pkgconfig logs logs/LibSSH2 share share/doc share/doc/libssh2 share/licenses share/licenses/LibSSH2 share/man share/man/man3
mkdir -p bin include/nghttp2 lib lib/pkgconfig logs share/doc/nghttp2 share/licenses/nghttp2 share/man/man1 share/nghttp2 
mkdir -p bin include/mbedtls include/psa lib logs/MbedTLS share/licenses/MbedTLS 
mkdir -p . bin include include/curl lib lib/pkgconfig logs logs/LibCURL share share/aclocal share/licenses share/licenses/LibCURL share/man share/man/man1 share/man/man3
mkdir -p . bin include include/git2 include/git2/sys lib lib/pkgconfig logs logs/LibGit2 share share/licenses share/licenses/LibGit2 
mkdir -p . bin include include/llvm include/llvm-c include/llvm-c/Transforms include/llvm/ADT include/llvm/Analysis include/llvm/Analysis/Utils include/llvm/AsmParser include/llvm/BinaryFormat include/llvm/BinaryFormat/ELFRelocs include/llvm/Bitcode include/llvm/Bitstream include/llvm/CodeGen include/llvm/CodeGen/GlobalISel include/llvm/CodeGen/MIRParser include/llvm/CodeGen/PBQP include/llvm/Config include/llvm/DWARFLinker include/llvm/DWP include/llvm/DebugInfo include/llvm/DebugInfo/CodeView include/llvm/DebugInfo/DWARF include/llvm/DebugInfo/GSYM include/llvm/DebugInfo/MSF include/llvm/DebugInfo/PDB include/llvm/DebugInfo/PDB/DIA include/llvm/DebugInfo/PDB/Native include/llvm/DebugInfo/Symbolize include/llvm/Demangle include/llvm/ExecutionEngine include/llvm/ExecutionEngine/JITLink include/llvm/ExecutionEngine/Orc include/llvm/ExecutionEngine/Orc/Shared include/llvm/ExecutionEngine/Orc/TargetProcess include/llvm/FileCheck include/llvm/Frontend include/llvm/Frontend/Directive include/llvm/Frontend/OpenACC include/llvm/Frontend/OpenMP include/llvm/FuzzMutate include/llvm/IR include/llvm/IRReader include/llvm/InterfaceStub include/llvm/LTO include/llvm/LTO/legacy include/llvm/LineEditor include/llvm/Linker include/llvm/MC include/llvm/MC/MCDisassembler include/llvm/MC/MCParser include/llvm/MCA include/llvm/MCA/HardwareUnits include/llvm/MCA/Stages include/llvm/Object include/llvm/ObjectYAML include/llvm/Option include/llvm/Passes include/llvm/ProfileData include/llvm/ProfileData/Coverage include/llvm/Remarks include/llvm/Support include/llvm/Support/FileSystem include/llvm/Support/Solaris include/llvm/Support/Solaris/sys include/llvm/Support/Windows include/llvm/TableGen include/llvm/Target include/llvm/Target/GlobalISel include/llvm/Testing include/llvm/Testing/Support include/llvm/TextAPI include/llvm/ToolDrivers include/llvm/ToolDrivers/llvm-dlltool include/llvm/ToolDrivers/llvm-lib include/llvm/Transforms include/llvm/Transforms/AggressiveInstCombine include/llvm/Transforms/Coroutines include/llvm/Transforms/IPO include/llvm/Transforms/InstCombine include/llvm/Transforms/Instrumentation include/llvm/Transforms/Scalar include/llvm/Transforms/Utils include/llvm/Transforms/Vectorize include/llvm/WindowsManifest include/llvm/WindowsResource include/llvm/XRay lib share share/licenses share/licenses/libLLVM tools
    CC cli/loader_exe.o
    CC cli/loader_lib.o
    PERL base/pcre_h.jl
    PERL base/uv_constants.jl
    CC cli/loader_trampolines.o
    LINK usr/bin/libjulia.dll
    ANALYZE usr/bin/libjulia.dll
    CC src/support/hashing.o
    CC src/support/timefuncs.o
    CC usr/bin/libccalltest.dll
    CC src/support/ptrhash.o
    CC src/support/operators.o
    CC src/support/utf8.o
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/src/support/utf8.c: In function 'u8_escape_wchar':
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/src/support/utf8.c:401:42: warning: unknown conversion type character 'h' in format [-Wformat=]
  401 |         return snprintf(buf, sz, "\\x%.2hhx", (unsigned char)ch);
      |                                          ^
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/src/support/utf8.c:401:34: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
  401 |         return snprintf(buf, sz, "\\x%.2hhx", (unsigned char)ch);
      |                                  ^~~~~~~~~~~
    CC src/support/ios.o
    CC src/support/htable.o
    CC src/support/bitvector.o
    CC src/support/int2str.o
    CC src/support/libsupportinit.o
    CC src/support/arraylist.o
    CC src/support/strtod.o
    CC src/support/rle.o
    CC src/support/asprintf.o
    CC src/support/strptime.o
    CC usr/bin/libllvmcalltest.dll
    LINK src/support/libsupport.a
    CC src/flisp/flisp.o
    PERL base/version_git.jl.phony
    CC src/flisp/builtins.o
    CC src/flisp/string.o
    CC src/flisp/equalhash.o
    LINK usr/bin/julia.exe
    CC src/flisp/table.o
    CC src/flisp/iostream.o
    CC src/flisp/julia_extensions.o
    CC src/flisp/flmain.o
    LINK src/flisp/libflisp.a
echo '@"%~dp0/'"$(echo 'usr/bin/julia.exe')"'" %*' | tr / '\\' > /mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/julia.bat
chmod a+x /mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/julia.bat
    LINK src/flisp/flisp.exe
    FLISP src/julia_flisp.boot
    FLISP src/julia_flisp.boot.inc
    CC src/jloptions.o
    CC src/runtime_ccall.o
    CC src/rtutils.o
    CC src/win32_ucontext.o
    CC src/jltypes.o
    CC src/gf.o
    CC src/typemap.o
    CC src/smallintset.o
    CC src/ast.o
    CC src/builtins.o
    CC src/module.o
    CC src/interpreter.o
    CC src/symbol.o
    CC src/dlload.o
    CC src/sys.o
    CC src/init.o
    CC src/task.o
    CC src/array.o
    CC src/dump.o
    CC src/staticdata.o
    CC src/toplevel.o
    CC src/jl_uv.o
    CC src/datatype.o
    CC src/simplevector.o
    CC src/runtime_intrinsics.o
    CC src/precompile.o
    CC src/threading.o
    CC src/partr.o
    CC src/stackwalk.o
    CC src/gc.o
    CC src/gc-debug.o
    CC src/gc-pages.o
    CC src/gc-stacks.o
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/src/gc-debug.c:986:24: warning: missing terminating " character
  986 |         jl_safe_printf("%ld Major collection: estimate freed = %ld
      |                        ^
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/src/gc-debug.c:987:70: warning: missing terminating " character
  987 |                        live = %ldm new interval = %ldm time = %ldms\n",
      |                                                                      ^
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/src/gc-debug.c:991:24: warning: missing terminating " character
  991 |         jl_safe_printf("%ld Minor collection: estimate freed = %ld live = %ldm
      |                        ^
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/src/gc-debug.c:992:58: warning: missing terminating " character
  992 |                        new interval = %ldm time = %ldms\n",
      |                                                          ^
    CC src/gc-alloc-profiler.o
    CC src/method.o
    CC src/jlapi.o
    CC src/signal-handling.o
    CC src/safepoint.o
    CC src/timing.o
    CC src/subtype.o
    CC src/crc32c.o
    CC src/APInt-C.o
    CC src/processor.o
    CC src/ircode.o
    CC src/opaque_closure.o
    CC src/codegen-stubs.o
    CC src/coverage.o
    CC src/codegen.o
    CC src/llvm-ptls.o
    CC src/jitlayers.o
    CC src/aotcompile.o
    CC src/debuginfo.o
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/src/jitlayers.cpp: In function 'jl_value_t* (* _jl_compile_codeinst(jl_code_instance_t*, jl_code_info_t*, size_t, llvm::LLVMContext&))(jl_value_t*, jl_value_t**, uint32_t, _jl_code_instance_t*)':
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/src/jitlayers.cpp:203:45: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat=]
  203 |             jl_printf(dump_compiles_stream, "%" PRIu64 "\t\"", end_time - start_time);
      |                                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/src/jitlayers.cpp:203:45: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/src/jitlayers.cpp: In lambda function:
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/src/jitlayers.cpp:495:73: warning: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long long int' [-Wformat=]
  495 |                 jl_printf(dump_llvm_opt_stream, "        basicblocks: %lu\n", countBasicBlocks(F));
      |                                                                       ~~^     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                                                         |                     |
      |                                                                         long unsigned int     long long int
      |                                                                       %I64u
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/src/jitlayers.cpp:508:45: warning: unknown conversion type character 'l' in format [-Wformat=]
  508 |             jl_printf(dump_llvm_opt_stream, "  time_ns: %" PRIu64 "\n", end_time - start_time);
      |                                             ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/src/jitlayers.cpp:508:45: warning: too many arguments for format [-Wformat-extra-args]
/mnt/d/OpenSource/julia/julia/src/jitlayers.cpp:519:73: warning: format '%lu' expects argument of type 'long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'long long int' [-Wformat=]
  519 |                 jl_printf(dump_llvm_opt_stream, "        basicblocks: %lu\n", countBasicBlocks(F));
      |                                                                       ~~^     ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
      |                                                                         |                     |
      |                                                                         long unsigned int     long long int
      |                                                                       %I64u
    CC src/disasm.o
    CC src/llvm-simdloop.o
    CC src/llvm-muladd.o
    CC src/llvm-final-gc-lowering.o
    CC src/llvm-pass-helpers.o
    CC src/llvm-late-gc-lowering.o
    CC src/llvm-lower-handlers.o
    CC src/llvm-gc-invariant-verifier.o
    CC src/llvm-propagate-addrspaces.o
    CC src/llvm-multiversioning.o
    CC src/llvm-alloc-opt.o
    CC src/llvm-alloc-helpers.o
    CC src/cgmemmgr.o
    CC src/llvm-remove-addrspaces.o
    CC src/llvm-remove-ni.o
    CC src/llvm-julia-licm.o
    CC src/llvm-demote-float16.o
    CC src/llvm-cpufeatures.o
    LINK usr/bin/libjulia-internal.dll
    LINK usr/bin/libjulia-codegen.dll
    JULIA usr/lib/julia/corecompiler.ji
Core.Compiler ---- 67.417 seconds
    JULIA usr/lib/julia/sys.ji
coreio.jl
exports.jl
essentials.jl
ctypes.jl
gcutils.jl
generator.jl
reflection.jl
options.jl
promotion.jl
tuple.jl
expr.jl
pair.jl
traits.jl
range.jl
error.jl
bool.jl
number.jl
int.jl
operators.jl
pointer.jl
refvalue.jl
refpointer.jl
checked.jl
strings/lazy.jl
indices.jl
array.jl
abstractarray.jl
subarray.jl
views.jl
baseext.jl
ntuple.jl
abstractdict.jl
iddict.jl
idset.jl
iterators.jl
namedtuple.jl
./build_h.jl
./version_git.jl
hashing.jl
rounding.jl
div.jl
float.jl
twiceprecision.jl
complex.jl
rational.jl
multinverses.jl
abstractarraymath.jl
arraymath.jl
simdloop.jl
reduce.jl
reshapedarray.jl
reinterpretarray.jl
bitarray.jl
bitset.jl
multimedia.jl
some.jl
dict.jl
abstractset.jl
set.jl
char.jl
strings/basic.jl
strings/string.jl
strings/substring.jl
osutils.jl
c.jl
io.jl
iobuffer.jl
intfuncs.jl
strings/strings.jl
strings/search.jl
strings/unicode.jl
strings/util.jl
strings/io.jl
regex.jl
pcre.jl
./pcre_h.jl
parse.jl
shell.jl
show.jl
compiler/ssair/show.jl
arrayshow.jl
methodshow.jl
cartesian.jl
multidimensional.jl
broadcast.jl
missing.jl
version.jl
sysinfo.jl
libc.jl
./errno_h.jl
libdl.jl
logging.jl
linked_list.jl
condition.jl
threads.jl
threadingconstructs.jl
atomics.jl
locks-mt.jl
lock.jl
channels.jl
task.jl
threads_overloads.jl
weakkeydict.jl
env.jl
libuv.jl
./uv_constants.jl
asyncevent.jl
iostream.jl
stream.jl
filesystem.jl
path.jl
stat.jl
file.jl
./file_constants.jl
cmd.jl
process.jl
ttyhascolor.jl
secretbuffer.jl
randomdevice.jl
floatfuncs.jl
math.jl
special/cbrt.jl
special/exp.jl
special/hyperbolic.jl
special/trig.jl
special/rem_pio2.jl
special/log.jl
reducedim.jl
accumulate.jl
permuteddimsarray.jl
ordering.jl
sort.jl
binaryplatforms.jl
cpuid.jl
features_h.jl
fastmath.jl
Enums.jl
gmp.jl
ryu\Ryu.jl
ryu\utils.jl
ryu\shortest.jl
ryu\fixed.jl
ryu\exp.jl
mpfr.jl
combinatorics.jl
irrationals.jl
mathconstants.jl
meta.jl
stacktraces.jl
experimental.jl
opaque_closure.jl
deepcopy.jl
download.jl
summarysize.jl
errorshow.jl
initdefs.jl
threadcall.jl
uuid.jl
pkgid.jl
toml_parser.jl
loading.jl
timing.jl
util.jl
asyncmap.jl
deprecated.jl
docs\basedocs.jl
client.jl
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docs\bindings.jl
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Sysimage built. Summary:
Total ------- 161.978920 seconds 
Base: -------  38.501652 seconds 23.7695%
Stdlibs: ---- 123.466503 seconds 76.2238%
    JULIA usr/lib/julia/sys-o.a
Generating REPL precompile statements... 40/40
Executing precompile statements... 1922/1962
Precompilation complete. Summary:
Total ------- 222.753298 seconds
Generation -- 178.446466 seconds 80.1095%
Execution ---  44.306832 seconds 19.8905%

Could someone please help me with this? Thanks!

It’s great that you’re trying but I just want to check, as you’re new here, that you know you don’t need to?

Windows binaries are available.

The last linking step takes a while, probably longer if you are using WSL and Wine. How long has it been like this?

Yes! I have been experimenting a lot with Julia, and I came across an issue that required adding some code in the Julia repository. I have done that locally and wanted to test it out by building and running the local version of Julia!

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Oh, I wasn’t aware of this. I did not note the exact duration but I think it crossed 30 minutes. I will try this again and note the time. Thanks!

Ok, 30 minutes is definitely too long, that’s not expected.

not that it says much, but was the CPU % still there?

Resource Manager / Task Manager should tell you

I tried building it again. The build was stuck for 45 minutes before getting canceled by me. I also tried removing the changes I made to Julia, but no affect.

Yes, CPU% and RAM, both were available.

What I meant was the CPU usage for the build still above 0% i.e. it was doing something (though that may be spinning locks!)

Yes, it is above 0%. I tried building the docs too, but I guess it needs the same step. When the installation is halted, the CPU% stays up.

Just to be sure that this isn’t a Julia bug, can someone on Windows try building Julia on wsl?

giving it a go now

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It did not go well :slight_smile:

Processing triggers for libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386 (2.40.0+dfsg-3ubuntu0.2) ...
/var/lib/dpkg/info/libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0:i386.postinst: 16: /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/gdk-pixbuf-query-loaders: Exec format error
E: Could not configure 'libc6:i386'.
E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libgcc-s1:i386'. Please see man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)
/usr/bin/wine: 40: exec: /usr/lib/wine/wine: Exec format error
/usr/bin/wine: 40: exec: /usr/lib/wine/wine: Exec format error
/usr/bin/wine: 40: exec: /usr/lib/wine/wine: Exec format error
make[1]: *** [M

I symlinked wine64 to /usr/lib/wine/wine and re-ran it, and got to the same place you did

JULIA usr/lib/julia/sys-o.a
Generating REPL precompile statements... 40/40
Executing precompile statements... 1923/1963
Precompilation complete. Summary:
Total ------- 368.793083 seconds
Generation -- 298.478811 seconds 80.934%
Execution ---  70.314272 seconds 19.066%

make is still running

32720 tty1     S      0:00 make -s -C /home/matt/julia-win32 -f sysimage.mk sysimg-release
   87 tty1     S      0:00 /bin/sh -c printf '    %b %b\n' "\033[32;1m"JULIA"\033[0m" "\033[37;1m"usr/lib/julia/sys-o.a"\033[0m";  cd /home/matt/julia-win32/base && if ! JULIA_BINDIR=`wine winepath.exe -w /home/matt/julia-win32/usr/bin` WINEPATH="`wine winepath.exe -w /home/matt/julia-win32/usr/bin`;$WINEPATH" JULIA_NUM_THREADS=1 wine  /home/matt/julia-win32/usr/bin/julia.exe -O3 -C "native" --output-o `wine winepath.exe -w /home/matt/julia-win32/usr/lib/julia/sys-o.a`.tmp  --startup-file=no --warn-overwrite=yes --sysimage `wine winepath.exe -w /home/matt/julia-win32/usr/lib/julia/sys.ji` `wine winepath.exe -w /home/matt/julia-win32/contrib/generate_precompile.jl` 1; then echo '*** This error is usually fixed by running `make clean`. If the error persists, try `make cleanall`. ***'; false; fi
  129 tty1     R     13:55 /home/matt/julia-win32/usr/bin/julia.exe -O3 -C native --output-o Z:\home\matt\julia-win32\usr\lib\julia\sys-o.a.tmp --startup-file=no --warn-overwrite=yes --sysimage Z:\home\matt\julia-win32\usr\lib\julia\sys.ji Z:\home\matt\julia-win32\contrib\generate_precompile.jl 1
 

but it is an instance of julia itself which is consuming ~100% CPU (this is the glances process monitor)

 CPU%   MEM%  VIRT  RES     PID USER          TIME+ THR  NI S  R/s W/s  Command
 95.9   25.6  2.70G 2.03G   129 matt          14:54 1     0 R    ? ?    /home/matt/julia-win32/usr/bin/julia.exe -O3 -C native --output-o Z:\home\matt\julia-win32\usr\lib\julia\sys-o.a.tmp --startup-file=no --warn-overwrite=yes --sys

oh, it finished after about an hour

I shall make the binary tomorrow

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Leaving it running for about an hour worked! Thank you so much for your efforts! I think this huge delay should be documented somehow in the markdown file.

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Did you get a working Julia?

Does it pass the test suite?

This is most interesting.

I added a PR to include a note about how long it takes

https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/44648

Yes, I got a working Julia exe file! Running the tests right now