I need to save variables of different types in Julia, and I’ve tried JLD.jl in Julia v1.6.2 without any problem. However, since I’m using the new Mac M1, I moved to the new upcoming release v1.7.0-beta3 (and it’s really much faster!), but I get an error after trying to use the package:
julia> using JLD
[ Info: Precompiling JLD [4138dd39-2aa7-5051-a626-17a0bb65d9c8]
ERROR: LoadError: UndefVarError: libhdf5 not defined
I also have problems (cannot use or compile) with other related packages: JLD2.jl, BSON.jl and HDF5.jl. Is this a normal behaviour because it’s a beta version? Will I be able to use these packages after the stable release of v1.7?
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jld does not work with 1.7, see https://github.com/JuliaIO/JLD.jl/issues/300#issuecomment-876362684
On my (Windows 10) machine, JLD2 and HDF5 work well with 1.7.0-beta3
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You are right: JLD2 works fine in v.1.7.0-beta3. I don’t know why I couldn’t get it to work before. Thank you very much.
Native aarch64-apple-darwin build of Julia is still missing many binary libraries, it’ll take a while to catch up. The x86_64-apple-darwin build running with Rosetta should work fine instead
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But the execution time ratio is about 1/1.6, where the 1 is for the v1.7.
In case you missed it, the aarch64-apple-darwin platform is classified as Tier 3 in terms of support, which means a lot of things won’t work. There are some outstanding bugs that still have to be fixed. Unless you can provide help to fix them, using the x86_64-apple-darwin build is a more stable, albeit slower, option.
On top of that, as I already said, some binaries will be missing for some time, and you can’t do much more than being patient.
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I find it hard to understand - should I use JLD or JLD2?
I find it hard to understand - should I use JLD or JLD2?
That’s clearly your decision. Both seem OK with recent Julia versions. (For my own work, I moved to JLD2 a year ago.) /Paul S
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