How to correctly configure Julia portable or stanalone, For everything to happen from the external storage USB drives: Add, update packages ? In Julia's helps is there any procedure?
This is what happens to me after running the .bat file.
From the USB flash I still have reference to the installation of Julia in C:
All you need to do is to configure your JULIA_DEPOT_PATH.
This is the place where Julia is installing it's packages and holding pre-compiled codes.
Assume your installation (USB drive) is D:\ and you unzip Julia to D:\Julia1.5.0
mkdir D:\JuliaPkg1.5.0
set PATH=D:\Julia1.5.0\bin;%PATH%
set JULIA_DEPOT_PATH=D:\JuliaPkg1.5.0
julia
Now you are ready to install the packages etc.
Thanks to the answer of Przemyslaw Szufel and the link
The final solution is the following: File batch windows
@echo off
set myDIR=%~d2\SA_Ptbls\julia-1.5.0-win64
if not exist %myDIR% (mkdir %myDIR%)
set PATH=%~d2\SA_Ptbls\julia-1.5.0-win64\julia-1.5.0\bin;%PATH%
set JULIA_DEPOT_PATH=%~d2\SA_Ptbls\julia-1.5.0-win64
julia
When executing the batch file, we successfully obtain:
And to run the batch file from a shortcut. After creating the shortcut it was configured as shown:
I did not achieve that in the status bar when executing the batch file the Julia icon was shown; and instead shows the WindowsPowerShell icon:
