This isn't really possible right now--large, essential parts of Julia are written in Julia, and there's not full differentiation between the core needed just to get the language running and the other components included in Base. Please see https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/5155 and recent comments on https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/1906 for a bit more of the current discussion on this topic.
On Monday, March 24, 2014 5:43:41 PM UTC-5, Dibyendu Majumdar wrote: > > The error message I got was: > > System image file "C:\project\Debug\../lib/julia/sys.ji" not found > > This occurred when I called jl_init() with NULL. It seems that it is > trying to find files relative to the executable file location. > I tried setting JULIA_HOME environment variable but that did not help. > I then changed the argument to "c:\julia\bin" which worked. > > It takes about 2 seconds to startup on my laptop (2009 Intel duo Mac). > > I was wondering if I could modify Julia to only be a language - i.e. > remove all the standard library and therefore most (all?) of the > dependencies. As an embedded language I don't really want all these > external dependencies. > Is this possible? Where should I start? Are any of the dependencies must > have? > Is there a developer's guide for Julia? > > Thanks and Regards > Dibyendu >
