v1.7.7

PackageCompiler v1.7.7

Diff since v1.7.6

Closed issues:

• Multiple executables in an app (#320)
• Be a bit more careful about what files we bundle in an app / library (#578)
• Simple app not relocatable in Julia 1.6 (#615)
• Regression from v1.5.0 to v1.7.6: duplicate copying attempt (#625)

Merged pull requests:

• print some info about bundled artifacts (#609) (@KristofferC)
• some general autumn cleaning (#612) (@KristofferC)
• warn for create_library and create_app on non-official builds (#617) (@KristofferC)
• add support for creating multiple executables for an app (#618) (@KristofferC)
• call entry points in apps using the julia runtime instead of via @ccallable (#619) (@KristofferC)
• strengthen null pointer checks in julia_init.c (#620) (@KristofferC)
• only print artifact size if we actually bundled something (#621) (@KristofferC)
• fix regression in create_library and update test to cover it (#622) (@KristofferC)
• Ensure app_libdir path exists before cp (#624) (@jpsamaroo)
• fix bug when the same artifact was used more than once in the project (#626) (@KristofferC)
• fix bug when the same artifact was used more than once in the project (#627) (@KristofferC)

v1.7.6

PackageCompiler v1.7.6

Diff since v1.7.5

Merged pull requests:

• Backports release 1 (#610) (@KristofferC)

v1.7.5

PackageCompiler v1.7.5

Diff since v1.7.4

Closed issues:

• Show some loading spinner or something while creating sysimages. (#318)
• The change of compiler in 1.7.4 is breaking situations where one of g++/clang++ isn't installed (#606)

Merged pull requests:

• Add a spinner for long running commands (#607) (@KristofferC)
• fall back to gcc/clang if g++/clang++ not avaiable, but warn about it (#608) (@KristofferC)

v1.7.4

PackageCompiler v1.7.4

Diff since v1.7.3

Closed issues:

• Feature request: use the Artifacts system to provide a C compiler on Linux and macOS (#316)
• Better Documentation for first time users (#404)
• [Q] How to dump the current session to an image? (#591)
• Should we link to libm? (#601)

Merged pull requests:

• simplify init of apps (#597) (@KristofferC)
• use g++/clang++ for sysimage (#602) (@KristofferC)
• use O3 for sysimage, like Julia itself does (#603) (@KristofferC)
• improve documentation (#604) (@KristofferC)
• Backports release 1 (#605) (@KristofferC)

v1.7.3

PackageCompiler v1.7.3

Diff since v1.7.2

Closed issues:

• create_image with packages in Project.toml (#373)

Merged pull requests:

• Remove support for replacing default sysimage (#546) (@KristofferC)
• make include_lazy_artifacts default to false (#550) (@KristofferC)
• if first argument to create_sysimage is left out, include all packages in project (#553) (@KristofferC)
• prevent accidentally picking up packages outside the project when creating a sysimage (#559) (@KristofferC)
• require packages to make their entry functions for app ccallable (#574) (@KristofferC)
• remove calling libsupport_init, this is done automatically by julia_init (#583) (@KristofferC)
• add upgrade note for lazy artifacts (#595) (@KristofferC)
• fix an off by one in julia-args parsing (#596) (@KristofferC)
• fixup artifact format (#599) (@KristofferC)
• Backports release 1 (#600) (@KristofferC)

v1.7.2

PackageCompiler v1.7.2

Diff since v1.7.1

Closed issues:

• System image compiled with 1.7 segfaults. (#588)
• ENAMETOOLONG regression with v1.7.1 (#592)

Merged pull requests:

• Fix a typo while gathering dependencies from Manifest.toml (#593) (@zhubonan)
• use a file to run the sysimage code in (#594) (@KristofferC)

v1.7.1

PackageCompiler v1.7.1

Diff since v1.7.0

Merged pull requests:

• run CI on 1.7 (#584) (@KristofferC)
• only initialize Random on 1.6 (#586) (@KristofferC)
• improve artifact bundling (#587) (@KristofferC)
• fixup regression in precompilation before creating sysimage (#589) (@KristofferC)
• allow loading stdlibs in the precompile process (#590) (@KristofferC)

v1.7.0

PackageCompiler v1.7.0

Diff since v1.6.0

Closed issues:

• How to get parallelism to work? (#84)
• Strange behaviour while spawning processes (#161)
• Allow giving a path to a file (in the same directory as a project file) to define an app. (#321)
• Unable to compile system image in Docker (#296)
• sysimage with Plots.jl compiled is slow in Atom/Juno IDE (#352)
• Allow the script argument to be a vector (#370)
• compiled sysimg is extremely slower when using --project (#427)
• Plots stops working in REPL on julia 1.5, macos (#428)
• PackageCompiler turns keyword-argument function into positional arguments (#431)
• qemu: uncaught target signal 11 (Segmentation fault) - core dumped (#433)
• call create_sysimage with custom CXX_FLAGS (#462)
• Multi-stage incremental builds (#488)
• Rebuild docs (#562)
• Make PackageCompiler relocatable (#573)

Merged pull requests:

• document base_sysimage parameter to create_sysimage (#401) (@grahamgill)
• include transitive dependencies into sysimage by default (#567) (@KristofferC)
• allow passing on flags with the explicit compiler (#568) (@KristofferC)
• store the precompile statements from the precompile execution scripts (#571) (@KristofferC)
• bundle Julia executable and Project.toml to get Distributed working (#572) (@KristofferC)
• fix relocatability of PackageCompiler (#575) (@KristofferC)
• initialize RNGs in sysimage process (#579) (@KristofferC)
• fix library used for creating sysimage on debug builds of Julia (#580) (@KristofferC)

v1.6.0

PackageCompiler v1.6.0

Diff since v1.5.0

Closed issues:

• Using julia shared libraries as python C exstensions (#25)
• Juju: statically compiling the static compiler! (#78)
• Simple C# DLL import fails (#139)
• init_jl_runtime does not work with Python ctypes (#144)
• Running PackageCompiler from the package itself (#256)
• build_executable fails if snoopfile and builddir are on different drives (#291)
• Provide a log with app (#323)
• Set julia threads env variable in the wrapper C script? (#324)
• check what libraries can be excluded when some stdlibs are not in sysimage (#319)
• More ccall() issues encountered when compiling with Julia 1.4 RC2 (#365)
• replace_default=true, Windows, fails with unlink permission denied (#377)
• realloc(): invalid pointer error with a particular combination of package dependencies (#379)
• fatal error on starting Julia after compiling sys image (#389)
• Calling a julia function in a sysimage from C (#393)
• macOS: "Julia-1.4.app" is damaged and can't be opened. You should move it to the trash. (#409)
• Error in devdocs/relocatable_part_3 (#411)
• EOOR: failed process when create_sysimage (#412)
• Allow setting julia startup options on executable (#413)
• Documentation: One too many sys.so (#418)
• Documentation error: identical command to compile *.o and *.so (#419)
• PackageCompiler broke my julia installation :/ (#424)
• Error using IJulia (#425)
• OhMyREPL sysimage breaks VScode language server (#434)
• MLJBase + PackageCompiler + Distributed => error (#444)
• Might need to execute Base.package_callbacks (#451)
• 'Could not spawn setenv' error when creating an app with multiprocessing (#452)
• Allow setting julia arguments during static compilation (#461)
• Allow skipping download of lazy artifacts (#464)
• Crashed precompile damages default system image (#465)
• Clear the docstrings (#467)
• Modules using PyCall don't compile in Windows (#468)
• Show progress during creating system image object file (#504)
• Error in create_app (#510)
• VectorizationBase/Hwloc error in latest version (#513)
• Vararg representation change interaction with Vararg{?, N} workaround (#514)
• New inactive precompile statement warnings on 1.7+ (unexpectedly?) surfacing (#515)
• "showing an error caused an error" when including files (#517)
• Error on windows Julia 1.7 beta3 (#521)
• sysimage compilation has started to error if precompilation fails (#522)
• Compiler warning on create_library (#532)
• MyLib example doesn't work (#534)
• InitError and artifact folder (#544)
• Julia 1.7beta3, MyApp example, error: expected identifier or ‘(’ before ‘)’ token` (#545)
• Something strange with parallel precompilation (#554)
• Using lazy artifact on 1.6 just by loading Pkg is deprecated (#558)

Merged pull requests:

• Remove keyword arguments from inner _create_app function (#533) (@kmsquire)
• remove some old code now that we only support julia 1.6+ (#539) (@KristofferC)
• update to new syntax for JULIA_DEFINE_FAST_TLS (#540) (@KristofferC)
• hide the "devdocs" in the manual (#541) (@KristofferC)
• remove more pre 1.6 code and simplify kwarg passing (#542) (@KristofferC)
• remove upgrade notes (#543) (@KristofferC)
• remove warn when detecting dependency on Requires.jl (#547) (@KristofferC)
• fix some grammar (#548) (@KristofferC)
• remove unused function (#549) (@KristofferC)
• add the possiblity of giving arguments to the process making the sysimage (#551) (@KristofferC)
• give packages as strings instead of symbols (#552) (@KristofferC)
• update to the more advanced but correct way of dealing with Varargs (#555) (@KristofferC)
• update versions for documentation generation (#556) (@KristofferC)
• fix assumption that Pkg is loadable in a different project (#557) (@KristofferC)
• use LazyArtifacts for lazy artifacts (#560) (@KristofferC)
• Use strcpy, strcat instead of strncpy in julia_init.c (#561) (@kmsquire)
• delete spurious file (#564) (@KristofferC)
• allow passing standard julia arguments to apps (#565) (@KristofferC)
• call create_sysimage with a vector for packages (#566) (@KristofferC)

v1.5.0

PackageCompiler v1.5.0

Diff since v1.4.1

Closed issues:

• Compiler warning on create_library (#532)

Merged pull requests:

• Fix compiler warning in julia_init.c during create_library() (#535) (@kmsquire)
• Remove Manifest.toml from MyLib/build (#536) (@kmsquire)
• dev PackageCompiler in MyLib/build (#537) (@KristofferC)
• put the sysimage for apps inside lib and slightly tweak rpath (#538) (@KristofferC)