PackageCompile system image for different computers

[ffevotte]

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Sysimage incompatible between Intel and AMD x86_64?

I’m using PackageCompiler to provide colleagues with a batteries included package (Julia + pre-compiled Julia code) that they just unzip and run. This process worked perfectly so far for Intel based computers. Trying to run the package on a computer with AMD processor throws the error ERROR: Unable to find compatible target in system image. Julia is started like this: julia.exe -J "path\to\sysimage.dll". Is this to be expected? sysimage.dll is compiled on an Intel i5-8265U. The error occurs o…

TLDR: something like this should give you the same kind of portability as official julia images:

create_sysimage(..., cpu_target="generic;sandybridge,-xsaveopt,clone_all;haswell,-rdrnd,base(1)")