Hello guix people and julia users! I started using julia in one of my university projects and I am not sure how this should be done the guix way. Has someone experience with this ?
For know I just used the julia package manager and the packages are in ~/.julia. I was not able to use the guix packages for julia however. Should something be done manually to tell julia where to find its packages ? I encountered two problems. The first with the package "GR" the second with the package "GLFW". I encountered these bugs while trying the packages "Plots" and the "GLMakie" backend of "Makie" The GR bug: > julia> using GR > julia> histogram(randn(10000)) > env: > ‘/home/teddd/.julia/artifacts/b5fea2b0d5c84336f26b139587a84ee7e8ca2e12/bin/gksqt’: > No such file or directory > connect: Connection refused > GKS: can't connect to GKS socket application it then exits because of a segmentation fault. I tried running the above inside this shell > guix shell gr-framework but the result is the same. The GLFW bug: > julia> using GLFW > julia> GLFW.CreateWindow(300,300, "Test") > ERROR: GLFWError (API_UNAVAILABLE): GLX: No GLXFBConfigs returned I also tried running this into > guix shell mesa glfw mesa-utils libglvnd with exact same result. Also I was able to compile and run a minimal GLFW C code so I think my glfw and mesa installs are fine. I am not sure these two errors are related but I have the impression they both come from the fact that guix doesn’t allow the access to some libraries or binaries the julia packages expect to find. Please correct me if I am wrong. Has someone an idea how I could investigate what is going wrong ? Kind Regards, Théo
