Building a Julia Environment #

This guide covers configuring Julia environments in envd. If you’re new to envd please read our Tutorial and build configuration guides first.

Specifying Julia #

First, you can specify to use the Julia language in the base function.

def build():
    base(os="ubuntu20.04", language="julia")

Julia packages #

You can install Julia packages with install.julia_packages function. The following example installs Example:

def build():
    base(os="ubuntu20.04", language="julia")
    install.julia_packages(name = [
        "Example",
    ])

Configure Julia package server #

By default, the Julia package server "pkg.julialang.org" is used when downloading and installing Julia packages. However, you can specify any other servers via config.julia_pkg_server() like the following:

def build():
    base(os="ubuntu20.04", language="julia")
    config.julia_pkg_server(url="https://mirrors.tuna.tsinghua.edu.cn/julia")
    install.julia_packages(name = [
        "Example",
    ])

Specifying shell program #

You can specify shell program used in the environment with shell function. The following example uses zsh:

def build():
    base(os="ubuntu20.04", language="julia")
    shell("zsh")

Specifying VSCode extensions #

You can specify VSCode extensions with install.vscode_extensions function. The following example installs julialang.language-julia^[1]:

def build():
    base(os="ubuntu20.04", language="julia")
    install.vscode_extensions(["julialang.language-julia"])