# Too much time taken to build GR

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/too-much-time-taken-to-build-gr/22798
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** package
**Created:** [April 5, 2019, 1:15pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/too-much-time-taken-to-build-gr/22798 "2019-04-05T13:15:16Z")
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### Author: ![Ajaychat3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecd19e/32.png) [@Ajaychat3](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ajaychat3)
#### Post date: [April 11, 2019, 7:26am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/too-much-time-taken-to-build-gr/22798/5 "2019-04-11T07:26:29Z")

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@cserteGT3  
Thanks, I downloaded the tar.gz file from the link given in your post and then tried to build GR after putting it in the “…/deps/download” folder. It still went on to download tar.gz file. I then modified the “…/dep/build.jl” and commented out code as per the following and then build GR. The build was quick.

```julia
version = get_version()
  tarball = "gr-$version-$os-$arch.tar.gz"
  # rm("downloads", force=true, recursive=true)
  @info("Downloading pre-compiled GR $version $os binary")
  # mkpath("downloads")
  # file = "downloads/$tarball"
  
  # try
  # # url = "github.com/sciapp/gr/releases/download/v$version/$tarball"
  # url ="gr-framework.org/downloads/$tarball"
  # download("http://$url", file)
  # catch
  # url = "gr-framework.org/downloads/$tarball"
  # try
  # download("http://$url", file)
  # catch
  # @info("Using insecure connection")
  # try
  # download("http://$url", file)
  # catch
  # @info("Cannot download GR run-time")
  # end
  # end
  # end
  if os == :Windows
    home = (VERSION < v"0.7-") ? JULIA_HOME : Sys.BINDIR
    success(`$home/7z x downloads/$tarball -y`)
    # rm("downloads/$tarball")
    tarball = tarball[1:end-3]
    success(`$home/7z x $tarball -y -ttar`)
    # rm(tarball)
  else
    run(`tar xzf downloads/$tarball`)
    rm("downloads/$tarball")
  end

julia> @time Pkg.build("GR")
  Building GR → `C:\Users\chatura\.julia\packages\GR\Q8slp\deps\build.log`
  3.576517 seconds (914.80 k allocations: 46.154 MiB, 0.23% gc time)

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