You actually don't have to build from source, there is a build_sysimg.jl script that has instructions for rebuilding the system image in a binary. This script had regressed a bit on some 0.4 releases, try the latest 0.4.5 release and it should be working again across platforms.
- [julia-users] pre-compile with userimg.jl instructions Lewis Lehe
- Re: [julia-users] pre-compile with userimg.jl instruction... Tim Holy
- Re: [julia-users] pre-compile with userimg.jl instruc... Tony Kelman
