PackageCompiler taking too much time

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Hi,

I am starting to compile my first App using Julia. So I read docs and some step-by-step guides to do it. It's a GUI application using GTK including multi-processing.

I used a precompile_app.jl file, after several attempts, I decided to leave it for more than 10 hours until I decided to Cancel the process and ask you possible solutions.

compilation output:

create_app(
                   "MyApp",
                   "MyAppCompiled";
                   precompile_execution_file = "MyApp/precompile_app.jl",
                   force=true, incremental=false)
                   
PackageCompiler: bundled artifacts:
  ├── ATK_jll - 1.447 MiB
  ├── Bzip2_jll - 1013.525 KiB
  ├── Cairo_jll - 4.041 MiB
  ├── Expat_jll - 424.294 KiB
  ├── Fontconfig_jll - 1.301 MiB
  ├── FreeType2_jll - 1.606 MiB
  ├── FriBidi_jll - 376.050 KiB
  ├── GTK3_jll - 39.551 MiB
  ├── Gettext_jll - 15.373 MiB
  ├── Glib_jll - 15.513 MiB
  ├── Graphite2_jll - 322.448 KiB
  ├── HarfBuzz_jll - 2.711 MiB
  ├── JpegTurbo_jll - 2.911 MiB
  ├── LERC_jll - 469.931 KiB
  ├── LZO_jll - 475.406 KiB
  ├── Libepoxy_jll - 3.261 MiB
  ├── Libffi_jll - 122.527 KiB
  ├── Libgcrypt_jll - 1.515 MiB
  ├── Libgpg_error_jll - 714.584 KiB
  ├── Libiconv_jll - 1.360 MiB
  ├── Librsvg_jll - 21.411 MiB
  ├── Libtiff_jll - 6.364 MiB
  ├── Nettle_jll - 3.401 MiB
  ├── PCRE_jll - 3.058 MiB
  ├── Pango_jll - 1.541 MiB
  ├── Pixman_jll - 586.403 KiB
  ├── Wayland_protocols_jll - 465.663 KiB
  ├── XML2_jll - 5.444 MiB
  ├── XSLT_jll - 752.667 KiB
  ├── Zstd_jll - 1.363 MiB
  ├── adwaita_icon_theme_jll - 22.570 MiB
  ├── gdk_pixbuf_jll - 3.807 MiB
  ├── hicolor_icon_theme_jll - 74.348 KiB
  ├── iso_codes_jll - 17.990 MiB
  └── libpng_jll - 1.003 MiB
  Total artifact file size: 184.204 MiB
✔ [01m:26s] PackageCompiler: compiling base system image (incremental=false)
Precompiling project...
  105 dependencies successfully precompiled in 299 seconds
[ Info: PackageCompiler: Executing /MyApp/precompile_app.jl => /var/folders/zm/s53r7k495_32k9z_ctzx69g40000gn/T/jl_packagecompiler_OgPwfP/jl_5kowG3
      From worker 3:	[ Info: Created channels: RemoteChannel{Channel{Dict}}(3, 3, 1), RemoteChannel{Channel{Any}}(3, 3, 2) at pid: 3
      From worker 2:	[ Info: Created channels: RemoteChannel{Channel{Dict}}(2, 2, 1), RemoteChannel{Channel{Any}}(2, 2, 2) at pid: 2

[ Info: Created channels: RemoteChannel{Channel{Dict}}(1, 1, 36), RemoteChannel{Channel{Any}}(1, 1, 37) at pid: 1
[ Info: PackageCompiler: Done
⠋ [00m:05s] PackageCompiler: compiling incremental system image

┌ Warning: Package Base does not have Distributed in its dependencies:
│ - If you have Base checked out for development and have
│   added Distributed as a dependency but haven't updated your primary
│   environment's manifest file, try `Pkg.resolve()`.
│ - Otherwise you may need to report an issue with Base
│ Loading Distributed into Base from project dependency, future warnings for Base are suppressed.
└ @ nothing nothing:984

Last lines after cancelling

✖ [10h:21m:10s] PackageCompiler: compiling incremental system image
ERROR: InterruptException:

precompile_app.jl content:

include("src/MyApp.jl")
using .MyApp
MyApp.julia_main()

System info:

Julia Version 1.7.0
Commit 3bf9d17731 (2021-11-30 12:12 UTC)

Platform Info:
  OS: macOS (arm64-apple-darwin21.1.0)
  CPU: Apple M1
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-12.0.1 (ORCJIT, cyclone)

Environment:
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 4

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I worked changing some part of my precompile_app.jl file... now getting another issue regarding a libgmodule-2.0.0.dlyb cannot be found in defined paths.

PackageCompiler: bundled artifacts:
  ├── ATK_jll - 1.447 MiB
  ├── Bzip2_jll - 1013.525 KiB
  ├── Cairo_jll - 4.041 MiB
  ├── Expat_jll - 424.294 KiB
  ├── Fontconfig_jll - 1.301 MiB
  ├── FreeType2_jll - 1.606 MiB
  ├── FriBidi_jll - 376.050 KiB
  ├── GTK3_jll - 39.551 MiB
  ├── Gettext_jll - 15.373 MiB
  ├── Glib_jll - 15.513 MiB
  ├── Graphite2_jll - 322.448 KiB
  ├── HarfBuzz_jll - 2.711 MiB
  ├── JpegTurbo_jll - 2.911 MiB
  ├── LERC_jll - 469.931 KiB
  ├── LZO_jll - 475.406 KiB
  ├── Libepoxy_jll - 3.261 MiB
  ├── Libffi_jll - 122.527 KiB
  ├── Libgcrypt_jll - 1.515 MiB
  ├── Libgpg_error_jll - 714.584 KiB
  ├── Libiconv_jll - 1.360 MiB
  ├── Librsvg_jll - 21.411 MiB
  ├── Libtiff_jll - 6.364 MiB
  ├── Nettle_jll - 3.401 MiB
  ├── PCRE_jll - 3.058 MiB
  ├── Pango_jll - 1.541 MiB
  ├── Pixman_jll - 586.403 KiB
  ├── Wayland_protocols_jll - 465.663 KiB
  ├── XML2_jll - 5.444 MiB
  ├── XSLT_jll - 752.667 KiB
  ├── Zstd_jll - 1.363 MiB
  ├── adwaita_icon_theme_jll - 22.570 MiB
  ├── gdk_pixbuf_jll - 3.807 MiB
  ├── hicolor_icon_theme_jll - 74.348 KiB
  ├── iso_codes_jll - 17.990 MiB
  └── libpng_jll - 1.003 MiB
  Total artifact file size: 184.204 MiB
✔ [01m:21s] PackageCompiler: compiling base system image (incremental=false)
Precompiling project...
  105 dependencies successfully precompiled in 198 seconds
[ Info: PackageCompiler: Executing /Users/pepe/MyApp/precompile_app.jl => /var/folders/zm/s53r7k495_32k9z_ctzx69g40000gn/T/jl_packagecompiler_hrIqah/jl_kLPBvA
      From worker 3:    [ Info: Created channels: RemoteChannel{Channel{Dict}}(3, 3, 1), RemoteChannel{Channel{Any}}(3, 3, 2) at pid: 3
      From worker 2:    [ Info: Created channels: RemoteChannel{Channel{Dict}}(2, 2, 1), RemoteChannel{Channel{Any}}(2, 2, 2) at pid: 2
[ Info: Created channels: RemoteChannel{Channel{Dict}}(1, 1, 36), RemoteChannel{Channel{Any}}(1, 1, 37) at pid: 1
[ Info: PackageCompiler: Done
⢰ [00m:06s] PackageCompiler: compiling incremental system imagecould not load library "/Users/pepe/.julia/artifacts/a5e3ce72eef3625cd50443d9dd458d83fd58aaf3/lib/libgtk-3.0.dylib"
dlopen(/Users/pepe/.julia/artifacts/a5e3ce72eef3625cd50443d9dd458d83fd58aaf3/lib/libgtk-3.0.dylib, 0x0001): Library not loaded: @rpath/libgmodule-2.0.0.dylib
  Referenced from: /Users/pepe/.julia/artifacts/a5e3ce72eef3625cd50443d9dd458d83fd58aaf3/lib/libgtk-3.0.dylib
  Reason: tried: '/Users/pepe/.julia/artifacts/a5e3ce72eef3625cd50443d9dd458d83fd58aaf3/lib/./libgmodule-2.0.0.dylib' 
(no such file), '/Users/pepe/.julia/artifacts/a5e3ce72eef3625cd50443d9dd458d83fd58aaf3/lib/./libgmodule-2.0.0.dylib' 
(no such file), '/Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/lib/julia/libgmodule-2.0.0.dylib' (no such file), 
'/Applications/Julia-1.7.app/Contents/Resources/julia/bin/../lib/libgmodule-2.0.0.dylib' (no such file), 
'/usr/local/lib/libgmodule-2.0.0.dylib' (no such file), '/usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.0.dylib' (no such file)

Stacktrace:
⡆ [00m:06s] PackageCompiler: compiling incremental system imageGtk.GtkBuilderLeaf(; buffer::Nothing, filename::String, resource::Nothing)
⠇ [00m:06s] PackageCompiler: compiling incremental system imageGtk ~/.julia/packages/Gtk/B6LVT/src/builder.jl:3

As you may notice, libgmodule-2.0.0.dylib cannot be found. However, file is located into my Homebrew folder (symlink didn't work) ... Any idea or config should I use to specify "custom" lib path? I cannot find any specific option to do so.

Thank you in advance.