Lazy guide for compiling Julia on Windows

Compile-Julia-on-Windows.md

Setup your environment

• Create a base folder, e.g. C:\users\simon\compile-julia
• Clone or download Julia from https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia.git and add it to your base folder:
  

Get cygwin portable

• Download and place cygwin-portable-installer.cmd in the base directory.
• Edit cygwin-portable-installer.cmd and add the following line (for additional Cygwin dependencies) after line set CYGWIN_PACKAGES=bash-completion,...:
  
  set CYGWIN_PACKAGES=%CYGWIN_PACKAGES%,cmake,gcc-g++,git,make,patch,curl,m4,python3,p7zip,mingw64-i686-gcc-g++,mingw64-i686-gcc-fortran,mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++,mingw64-x86_64-gcc-fortran
  (The list of packages is taken from build-windows.md and might need updating in the future.)
• Run cygwin-portable-installer.cmd for a completely automatic installation
  

Compile Julia

• Create a file make-julia.cmd in your base directory and add the following content:

@echo 'XC_HOST = x86_64-w64-mingw32' > "%~dp0\julia\Make.user"
@call "%~dp0\cygwin-portable.cmd" -c "make -C '%~dp0\julia'" %*

     

• You can now compile Julia by opening the directory in the terminal and run make-julia -j4
• This may take a while...
  
  

Run Julia

• After successfully compiling Julia, you find Julia in \julia\usr\bin\julia.exe