Having hard time understanding Julia's compile flags

[daring turtle]

I ran this in my cmd

julia mainthing.jl --output-o "objout"

In theory, i should've been getting .o file on my desktop, but thats the opposite of what happened. What am i doing wrong?

[unborn crater]

Try

julia --output-o objout.o mainthing.jl

[unborn crater]

You may also need to specify sysimage file if you get "boot.jl not found" error. Check out the docs here:
https://docs.juliahub.com/PackageCompiler/MMV8C/1.1.0/devdocs/sysimages_part_1.html#.-Creating-the-object-file-1

[daring turtle]

Thanks. Appreciated

[karmic steeple]

Gave +1 Julia Points to @unborn crater

[daring turtle]

Although now, this outputs this ---> next msg

Got same exception when trying to create a pointer to a memory address. The only thing that mainthing.jl containts is

print("it works apparently")

My assumption is that julia somehow hates memory operations, even "under-the-hood" ones. Which is weird, considering Ptr{T} yknow, exists.

[unborn crater]

I got this error too. Googling around, this seems to be the best way to compile julia binaries?
https://github.com/JuliaComputing/static-julia
Although it's merged with PackageCompiler.jl now. The examples in this one are fairly easy to follow though so I'd probably try this first.

[solar roost]

We still are not able to compile Julia code into binaries but as sysimages (which I will be probably corrected soon because they do seem to be binaries). So far this is the only thing we can do.

.julia/environments/helix-lsp via  v1.8.3 
❯ ldd languageserver.so
    linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007ffc60994000)
    libjulia.so.1 => not found
    libjulia-internal.so.1 => not found
    libstdc++.so.6 => /lib64/libstdc++.so.6 (0x00007ff984600000)
    libm.so.6 => /lib64/libm.so.6 (0x00007ff993ae1000)
    libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib64/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007ff993ac0000)
    libc.so.6 => /lib64/libc.so.6 (0x00007ff984405000)
    /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007ff993bdf000)

Similarly, there is another project that also have similar goals https://github.com/tshort/StaticCompiler.jl