Relocatable Makie app

General Usage
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1

I want to share some results with a college so that he can have a look at the data himself.
Plotly can export an HTML which is interactive, but WGLMakie can not (as far as I known). It is mainly time series charts where it would be nice to pan and zoom around.

I have this very basic app to test the approach, but it appears to be not relocatable.

module MakieTestApp

using GLMakie

function julia_main()::Cint
    # do something based on ARGS?

    fig1 = Figure()
    ax1 = Axis(fig1[1, 1])
    lines!(ax1, cumsum(randn(100)))
    lines!(ax1, cumsum(randn(100)))
    lines!(ax1, cumsum(randn(100)))

    screen2 = GLMakie.Screen()
    display(screen2, fig1)

    fig2 = Figure()
    ax1 = Axis(fig2[1, 1])
    lines!(cumsum(randn(100)))
    lines!(cumsum(randn(100)))
    lines!(cumsum(randn(100)))

    screen1 = GLMakie.Screen()
    display(screen1, fig2)

    wait(screen1)
    wait(screen2)

    return 0 # if things finished successfully
end

end # module MakieTestApp

import PackageCompiler
PackageCompiler.create_app(
    "MakieTestApp",
    "MakieTestAppCompiled",
)

When I run the app after compiling I see this screen:

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I had an issue with this Glib warning here already: GLib-GIO-WARNING · Issue #4049 · MakieOrg/Makie.jl · GitHub

Nevertheless, on another machine, I get this:

SystemError: opening file "C:\\Users\\KaisermayerV\\.julia\\packages\\GLMakie\\QOOnq\\assets\\shader\\postprocessing/fullscreen.vert": No such file or directory

What can I do?

BTW there app directory has 1.5GB!

2

We do have a test for this:

Which should test for not existing ./julia/packages/**…
Not sure what’s going wrong in your case… Could you maybe try the code from the test and see if that passes, and then figure out what you do differently from there?

3

Oh I just realize our test may be incorrect, since the GLMakie source code doesn’t live in .julia/packages/** on the CI.

4

Maybe; the build options are different

5

Nop, same problem!