Windows 32 doesn't (shouldn't?) have the truncated backtraces issue. On Windows 64 the issue has been (should be?) fixed on master for 0.3.
On windows, the sysimg will be rebuilt if you delete it and run `bin\prepare-julia-env.bat`. This won't affect the backtraces. On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 6:19 PM, Tony Kelman <[email protected]> wrote: > The platforms I have easiest non-VM access to are Windows and 4-year-old Red > Hat, and both have a habit of giving me very short, difficult to use > backtraces (probably https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/issues/3469 ?). My > first instinct to deal with this was finding the line where the error occurs > or a method I know is being called thanks to @which, and trying to put in > println's (or, better, @bp using the Debug package). For the Julia code in > base, this doesn't seem to work until I re-run make, which I can't do if I'm > using a binary download of Julia. > > From what I've been able to find from searching around Github and mailing > lists, this may be related to the building of a "system image," which I > can't find much documentation on - I could help write some, but would have > to learn how it works first. Is this possible to do from a binary-installed > version of Julia? I'm trying to read through the Makefile to make sense of > what it's doing. While the Makefile works beautifully, it is a bit confusing > (as are all build systems) to figure out which piece of it does what I'm > asking about here. > > Thanks, > Tony
