Makie.jl precompilation: how to launch MakieSys.so?

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Followed Makie.jl precompilation instructions and managed to create a system image file: MakieSys.so (275 MB). However, do not know how to launch Julia with recommended julia -J ./MakieSys.so command line instruction. Sorry for this basic question and thanks for simple advice.
PS: I am running VS Code on Windows 10.

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I think this is more of a VSCode question than a Makie question, so I changed the category so hopefully it will get spotted easier by those who know the answer.

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In VSCode, go to
File > Preferences > Settings. There, Extensions > Julia > Additional Args > Edit in settings.json
There, insert an argument like

    "julia.additionalArgs": [
        "-J/absolute/path/to/MakieSys.so"
    ]
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Thank you for the very clear instructions. Unfortunately, this failed to launch Julia REPL with error message as follows:
The terminal process "C:\Users\jguerra5\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia 1.5.0\bin\julia.exe '-i', '--banner=no', '--project=C:\Users\jguerra5\.julia\environments\v1.5', '-J C:\CODE\Julia\VS_Code_ide\VS_Code_Example\MakieSys.so', 'c:\Users\jguerra5\.vscode\extensions\julialang.language-julia-1.0.6\scripts\terminalserver\terminalserver.jl', '\\.\pipe\vsc-julia-repl-25020', '\\.\pipe\vsc-jl-cr-25020', 'USE_REVISE=true', 'USE_PLOTPANE=true', 'DEBUG_MODE=undefined'" failed to launch (exit code: 1).

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I am not sure what happened there.
Can you start julia with the system image from the command line?
C:\Users\jguerra5\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia 1.5.0\bin\julia.exe -J"C:\CODE\Julia\VS_Code_ide\VS_Code_Example\MakieSys.so"

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From Windows 10 command prompt, Julia can be launched with the argument -J"C:\CODE\Julia\VS_Code_ide\VS_Code_Example\MakieSys.so".
However, did not manage to pass this through VS Code “settings.json”. Possibly doing some syntax mistake here. Will try again tomorrow. Thanks again.

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Fyi, tried different escape sequences for the windows command/path in json settings but the only thing that worked used davidanthoff’s workaround posted in vscode_issues_1006 to pass commands with multiple arguments:

"julia.additionalArgs": [
        "-J", "C:\\CODE\\Julia\\VS_Code_ide\\VS_Code_Example\\MakieSys.so"
    ]

Makie’s plot appeared much faster when running Julia code afterwards.
It required as per Makie.jl instructions to add the following line of code after ‘using Makie’:

AbstractPlotting.__init__()   # if Makie displays not working after compilation
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Thank you! This exactly solved my problem! Another way to make it work is “-J=C:\CODE\Julia\VS_Code_ide\VS_Code_Example\MakieSys.so”. This is essentially related to how to address the space in scripts.