# Step by step instruction and example how to create standalone applications for Windows with a \[G\]UI

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** package-compiler, ui, gui\
**Created:** [April 21, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/step-by-step-instruction-and-example-how-to-create-standalone-applications-for-windows-with-a-g-ui/128274 "2025-04-21T20:57:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [April 21, 2025, 8:57pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/step-by-step-instruction-and-example-how-to-create-standalone-applications-for-windows-with-a-g-ui/128274/1 "2025-04-21T20:57:53Z")

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After many hours of troubles, [discussions](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-create-standalone-applications-for-windows-with-a-g-ui-in-julia-1-11-or-1-12/127823) and problems, gave this issue a final try and [here is my solution](https://codeberg.org/donovaly/Juliastic/src/branch/main/Readme.md).

I created a [complete repository](https://codeberg.org/donovaly/Juliastic) called “Juliastic” that provides these features:

1. step by step instructions how to compile a DLL using PackageCompiler.  
**Note** : you must use Julia 1.10.x, with 1.11.4 I got a lot of issues I cannot explain.
2. instructions how to test the DLL in a C program
3. a small Lazarus example project that uses the DLL you will compile when following the above instructions

Summing it up over the last days, I had to spend many hours to resolve all issues.

Please give it a try and report any errors you encountered. Please also feel free to fix mistakes you see directly at the [Juliastic Wiki](https://codeberg.org/donovaly/Juliastic/wiki/Home).  
If you have instructions for other UI widgetsets and OSes, you can also directly create a Wiki page.

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