Looking for a simple way to run binaries from the YggDrasil repo? RunBinary.jl has you covered!

Under the hood, it performs the following steps:

• Activate a temporary environment, as in ]activate --temp.
• Add the required jll package to this env.
• Import the jll and run the target executable.

RunBinary.jl exports a single macro, @run.

julia> using RunBinary

Most basic usage: run a binary from a jll package with @run <package>.<binary>. Here, package can be specified either with or without the _jll suffix. For example,

julia> @run SQLCipher.sqlcipher

julia> @run ImageMagick_jll.identify

Can omit the binary name if the package contains only a single binary:

julia> @run SQLCipher

RunBinary.jl passes command-line arguments to the binary:

julia> @run ImageMagick_jll.identify `-version`

The binary is started in the current directory by default. The working directory can be set to a temporary directory (same as the activated environment) if desired:

julia> @run SQLCipher tempdir=true

No separate scripts are provided for now.

RunBinary.jl can be executed via Julia CLI in a reasonably convenient way:

$ julia -e 'using RunBinary; @run ImageMagick_jll.identify `-version`'