# Is it possible for "ccall" to call the shared library created by PackageCompiler.jl?

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** ccall, package-compiler\
**Created:** [July 16, 2022, 3:14am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-possible-for-ccall-to-call-the-shared-library-created-by-packagecompiler-jl/84298 "2022-07-16T03:14:08Z")\
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**Author:** ![mkitti](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/mkitti/32/12459_2.png) [@mkitti](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/mkitti)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2022, 6:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/is-it-possible-for-ccall-to-call-the-shared-library-created-by-packagecompiler-jl/84298/51 "2022-07-26T06:27:08Z")

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Perhaps some of what you would like to accomplish here may be accomplished by StaticCompiler.jl and StaticTools.jl. This would allow a subset of Julia to be compiled into a static function that does not need the Julia runtime and thus does not need initialization or shutdown.

> [@\[ANN\] StaticTools.jl: Enabling StaticCompiler.jl-based compilation of Julia code to standalone native binaries by avoiding GC allocations and \`llvmcall\`-ing all the things](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/ann-statictools-jl-enabling-staticcompiler-jl-based-compilation-of-julia-code-to-standalone-native-binaries-by-avoiding-gc-allocations-and-llvmcall-ing-all-the-things/80398):
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> Technically this one has been registered for a couple months already, but we never made an announcement, so here goes! [GitHub - brenhinkeller/StaticTools.jl: Enabling StaticCompiler.jl-based compilation of (some) Julia code to standalone native binaries by avoiding GC allocations and llvmcall-ing all the things!](https://github.com/brenhinkeller/StaticTools.jl) I’ve just released version 0.3, which brings a lot of major changes. While it’s still a somewhat experimental package, I think it’s at least to some extent ready for other folks to use,…

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