# Issues Porting JuliaBinaryWrappers

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-porting-juliabinarywrappers/67451>\
**Category:** New to Julia\
**Created:** [August 31, 2021, 8:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-porting-juliabinarywrappers/67451 "2021-08-31T20:17:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sukera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ce7236/32.png) [@Sukera](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Sukera)\
**Post date:** [August 31, 2021, 8:31pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/issues-porting-juliabinarywrappers/67451/3 "2021-08-31T20:31:10Z")

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Welcome to discourse!

> [@scanf](#):
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> Rolled my own 1.4.1 on MinGW64

1.4.1 is kind of an old version, do you need this specific version? Why not use e.g. 1.6.2 (the latest stable release?

> [@scanf](#):
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> That’s where things turn real ugly because those guys are binary-only. Like they can’t even _imagine_ that someone would want to use this on something other than their “listed platforms” it seems ☹

The whole purpose of those packages is to save the vast majority of users the hassle of having to build dependencies manually. “They” are real people that also frequent this forum.

> [@scanf](#):
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> Like what exactly does Unable to automatically install ‘Zstd’ from… actually mean in detailed terms

If you post the error message you’re getting, we _may_ be able to help you with whatever error you’re actually seeing.

> [@scanf](#):
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> when I have a fully working / tested zstd lib ready for linking?

Because a package may require a specific version of `Zstd` and you may not have that installed/other programs on your system don’t work with the version the package needs?

The purpose is to isolate julia dependencies from system dependencies, because crosstalk between different programs requiring different setups/libs/versions is so very often a major point of breakage (e.g. have you tried installing CUDA before?). A lot of packages will give you the option of specifying a system install instead though, which will try to use whatever you have available on your system (e.g. MPI does this).

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