# VScode Julia server fails precompilation

**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-julia-server-fails-precompilation/98865
**Category:** VS Code
**Tags:** vscode
**Created:** [May 15, 2023, 8:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-julia-server-fails-precompilation/98865 "2023-05-15T08:07:09Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author: ![Gravlax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dbc845/32.png) [@Gravlax](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Gravlax)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2023, 11:07am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-julia-server-fails-precompilation/98865/21 "2023-10-10T11:07:50Z")

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The OS is 10.14.6 (Mojave).

and the command returns this:

```julia
geo145:~ imac$ echo 'int main(void) { return 0; }' | clang -x c -o main.o -
geo145:~ imac$ /Applications/Julia-1.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/libexec/julia/lld -flavor darwin -arch x86_64 -o main main.o
dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/libLLVM.dylib
  Referenced from: /Applications/Julia-1.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/libexec/julia/lld
  Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6

```

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### Author: ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2023, 2:47pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-julia-server-fails-precompilation/98865/22 "2023-10-10T14:47:20Z")

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> [@Gravlax](#):
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> `"DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH=/Applications/Julia-1.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia:/Applications/Julia-1.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib:/Users/imac/lib:/usr/local/lib:/lib:/usr/lib"`

Right, sorry, we need to set `DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH`, could you please try

```julia
echo 'int main(void) { return 0; }' | clang -x c -o main.o -
DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH="/Applications/Julia-1.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia:/Applications/Julia-1.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib" /Applications/Julia-1.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/libexec/julia/lld -flavor darwin -arch x86_64 -platform_version macos 13.3.1 13.3 -o main main.o

```

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### Author: ![Gravlax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dbc845/32.png) [@Gravlax](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Gravlax)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2023, 6:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-julia-server-fails-precompilation/98865/23 "2023-10-10T18:09:05Z")

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It also produces “image not found”

```julia
geo145:~ imac$ echo 'int main(void) { return 0; }' | clang -x c -o main.o -
geo145:~ imac$ DYLD_FALLBACK_LIBRARY_PATH="/Applications/Julia-1.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia:/Applications/Julia-1.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib" /Applications/Julia-1.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/libexec/julia/lld -flavor darwin -arch x86_64 -o main main.o
dyld: Library not loaded: @rpath/libLLVM.dylib
  Referenced from: /Applications/Julia-1.10.app/Contents/Resources/julia/libexec/julia/lld
  Reason: image not found
Abort trap: 6

```

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### Author: ![giordano](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/giordano/32/2166_2.png) [@giordano](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/giordano)
#### Post date: [October 10, 2023, 6:46pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-julia-server-fails-precompilation/98865/24 "2023-10-10T18:46:41Z")

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Uhm, do you have SIP enabled? Can you try to temporary disable it following the instructions at [Disabling and Enabling System Integrity Protection | Apple Developer Documentation](https://developer.apple.com/documentation/security/disabling_and_enabling_system_integrity_protection) and try again? Edit: but lld shouldn’t fall inside SIP cover, so I’m not sure it’s that one.

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### Author: ![Gravlax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/dbc845/32.png) [@Gravlax](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Gravlax)
#### Post date: [October 11, 2023, 10:12am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-julia-server-fails-precompilation/98865/25 "2023-10-11T10:12:54Z")

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Problem solved after updating to OS Catalina (10.15).

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### Author: ![user664303](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/user664303/32/37843_2.png) [@user664303](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/user664303)
#### Post date: [January 22, 2024, 2:18pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/vscode-julia-server-fails-precompilation/98865/26 "2024-01-22T14:18:59Z")

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I had a similar problem. VSCode was unable to open the precompiled LanguageServer package. It was resolved by uninstalling the Julia extension in VSCode, the quitting VSCode, then starting it again and reinstalling the extension.

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