PackageCompiler and modules

General Usage
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I’m trying to compile an old Julia 0.6 code of mine with PackageCompiler and I’m running into trouble with the following situation:

module M
type A a end
export A
end

using M

Base.@ccallable function julia_main(ARGS::Vector{String})::Cint
    a = A(1.0) ## works
    path1 = string(@__DIR__, "/file1.jl")
    path2 = string(@__DIR__, "/file2.jl")
    file1 = open(path1, "w")
    write(file1, "type B field::M.A end")
    close(file1)
    file2 = open(path2, "w")
    write(file2, "type B field::A end")
    close(file2)
    include(path1) ## works
    include(path2) ## fails
    return 0
end

I can use A fine in julia_main if calling it directly. Loading file1.jl works but not file2.jl, I get the following error:

fatal: error thrown and no exception handler available.
LoadError(at "/Users/plppplp/.julia/v0.6/PackageCompiler/examples/file2.jl" line 1: UndefVarError(var=:A))
rec_backtrace at /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/libjulia.dylib (unknown line)
jl_throw at /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/libjulia.dylib (unknown line)
jl_undefined_var_error at /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/libjulia.dylib (unknown line)
eval at /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/libjulia.dylib (unknown line)
do_call at /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/libjulia.dylib (unknown line)
eval at /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/libjulia.dylib (unknown line)
eval at /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/libjulia.dylib (unknown line)
eval_body at /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/libjulia.dylib (unknown line)
jl_toplevel_eval_body at /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/libjulia.dylib (unknown line)
jl_toplevel_eval_flex at /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/libjulia.dylib (unknown line)
jl_parse_eval_all at /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/libjulia.dylib (unknown line)
jl_load_ at /Applications/Julia-0.6.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/libjulia.dylib (unknown line)
include_from_node1 at /Users/plppplp/.julia/v0.6/PackageCompiler/builddir/module.dylib (unknown line)
jlcall_include_from_node1_1175 at /Users/plppplp/.julia/v0.6/PackageCompiler/builddir/module.dylib (unknown line)
include at /Users/plppplp/.julia/v0.6/PackageCompiler/builddir/module.dylib (unknown line)
julia_main at /Users/plppplp/.julia/v0.6/PackageCompiler/builddir/module.dylib (unknown line)
julia_main at /Users/plppplp/.julia/v0.6/PackageCompiler/builddir/module.dylib (unknown line)
main at /Users/plppplp/.julia/v0.6/PackageCompiler/./builddir/module (unknown line)

In practice module M is huge and I can’t really afford to specify M. in front of all variables from module M in included files. This code worked fine without using PackageCompiler. Is there any way to make PackageCompiler understand I’m referring to variables from module M…?

Many thanks!

2

What happens if you add using M; in file2.jl and, alternatively, if you rename of B to something else ?

3

Thanks for the suggestion! I should have tried it by myself… So yes, using M at the beginning of each included file seems to work. I’m currently trying to figure out if this is a viable option for my project, but I think it will be.

4

I am not sure why that works, glad that it does :slight_smile: It may be that when compiling, scoping rules change a bit… It may be a limitation or bug.

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