I had something similar happen on one of my machines and the answer was the antivirus software thought Julia was a virus. Have a look at the antivirus software and make sure that Julia is clear.
Hope this helps. On Tuesday, March 15, 2016 at 6:39:23 AM UTC+8, danie...@gmail.com wrote: > > A colleague was trying to install Julia on his Windows machine. He > downloaded the self-extracting archive, extracted it, and then tried to > launch Julia. It showed a blank console for a few seconds, and then > closed. I had him try the nightly build, and it failed in the same way. > > He opened up a console manually and pasted in the julia.exe path, and was > able to get this output as Julia crashed: > > > C:\windows\system32>C:\Users\pcuthber\AppData\Local\Julia-0.5.0-dev\bin\julia.exe > A s s e r t i o n f a i l e d ! > P r o g r a m : C : \ U s e r s \ p c u t h b e r \ A p p D a t a \ L o c > a l > \ J u l i a - 0 . 5 . 0 - d e v \ b i n \ j u l i a . e x e > F i l e : / h o m e / A d m i n i s t r a t o r / b u i l d b o t / s l a > v e > / p a c k a g e _ w i n 6 _ 2 - x 6 4 / b u i l d / d e p s / s r c c a c > h e / > l i b u v / s r c / u v - c o m m o n . c , L i n e 8 3 > E x p r e s s i o n : 0 > > > Any ideas as to what is going on? > > Thank you! > > Daniel >
