Can't find the bin folder of Julia?

Question

I had installed Julia Programming Language in my Windows 10 Laptop. I want to add this to PATH variable in my system's Environment Variables but I am unable to locate the executable file. Can you please help me to solve this problem?

Answer 1

With the current Julia version the path has slightly changed and is:

C:\Users\your-user-name\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia\Julia-1.4.2\bin

Julia in Windows normally installs itself to the Start Menu. Hence, if you forgot the location of your installation go to the Start menu, type julia and launch the Julia REPL command line.

Having the command line running you can ask Julia where it is:

julia> println(Sys.BINDIR)
C:\Users\your-user-name\AppData\Local\Programs\Julia\Julia-1.4.2\bin

I would advise against creating the *.bat file suggested in another answer because when you update Julia in the future (which always means a new directory) you might forget where your *.bat file was and commands such as println(Sys.BINDIR) will not help (however in Windows there is a good-to-know command where julia.exe that shows how your Julia executable will be found in PATH).