# Standalone Console Application in Julia

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/standalone-console-application-in-julia/13817
**Category:** New to Julia
**Created:** [August 21, 2018, 9:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/standalone-console-application-in-julia/13817 "2018-08-21T09:56:34Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author: ![Julien\_le\_Codeur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/97f17d/32.png) [@Julien\_le\_Codeur](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Julien_le_Codeur)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2018, 9:56am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/standalone-console-application-in-julia/13817/1 "2018-08-21T09:56:35Z")

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I begin to learn Julia on Windows and I would like to write and compile standalone executable programs working in a Console.

How may I do that ?

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### Author: ![ChrisRackauckas](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/chrisrackauckas/32/77_2.png) [@ChrisRackauckas](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ChrisRackauckas)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2018, 11:22am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/standalone-console-application-in-julia/13817/2 "2018-08-21T11:22:14Z")

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There’s [https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl](https://github.com/JuliaLang/PackageCompiler.jl)

Note that this is still an underdeveloped area of Julia.

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### Author: ![dpsanders](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/dpsanders/32/3573_2.png) [@dpsanders](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dpsanders)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/standalone-console-application-in-julia/13817/3 "2018-08-21T14:43:11Z")

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Is there any particular reason why you would like to do that?