student gets precompile error and access denied to libcairo-2.dll

[SimonEnsemble]

student got both a precompile error and an error that access is denied to libcairo-2.dll. anything I can suggest the student to try? thanks.

Failed to precompile CairoMakie [13f3f980-e62b-5c42-98c6-ff1f3baf88f0] to "C:\\Users\\alzahban\\.julia\\compiled\\v1.10\\CairoMakie\\jl_B9C5.tmp".

error(::String)@error.jl:35
compilecache(::Base.PkgId, ::String, ::IO, ::IO, ::Bool)@loading.jl:2462
Base@loading.jl:2334[inlined]
(::Base.var"#968#969"{Base.PkgId})()@loading.jl:1968
var"#mkpidlock#7"(::Base.Pairs{Symbol, Integer, Tuple{Symbol, Symbol}, @NamedTuple{stale_age::Int64, wait::Bool}}, ::typeof(FileWatching.Pidfile.mkpidlock), ::Base.var"#968#969"{Base.PkgId}, ::String, ::Int32)@pidfile.jl:93
FileWatching.Pidfile@pidfile.jl:88[inlined]
var"#trymkpidlock#11"(::Base.Pairs{Symbol, Int64, Tuple{Symbol}, @NamedTuple{stale_age::Int64}}, ::typeof(FileWatching.Pidfile.trymkpidlock), ::Function, ::Vararg{Any})@pidfile.jl:111
Base@essentials.jl:889[inlined]
Base@essentials.jl:884[inlined]
var"#maybe_cachefile_lock#983"(::Int64, ::typeof(Base.maybe_cachefile_lock), ::Base.var"#968#969"{Base.PkgId}, ::Base.PkgId, ::String)@loading.jl:2977
Base@loading.jl:2974[inlined]
_require(::Base.PkgId, ::String)@loading.jl:1964
__require_prelocked(::Base.PkgId, ::String)@loading.jl:1806
Base@essentials.jl:921[inlined]
Base@essentials.jl:918[inlined]
_require_prelocked(::Base.PkgId, ::String)@loading.jl:1797
Base@loading.jl:1784[inlined]
Base@lock.jl:267[inlined]
__require(::Module, ::Symbol)@loading.jl:1747
Base@essentials.jl:921[inlined]
Base@essentials.jl:918[inlined]
require(::Module, ::Symbol)@loading.jl:1740
top-level scope@Local: 4

julia> versioninfo() Julia Version 1.10.0 Commit 3120989f39 (2023-12-25 18:01 UTC)
Platform Info: OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32) 
CPU: 8 × 11th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-1145G7 @ 2.60GHz 
WORD_SIZE: 64 
LIBM: libopenlibm 
LLVM: libLLVM-15.0.7 (ORCJIT, tigerlake) 
Threads: 1 on 8 virtual cores

[jkrumbiegel]

I've seen other users report similar errors on Windows, with other packages, too. I vaguely remember it can be a problem with access rights, or antivirus scanners, or a number of other things. I don't think this is anything Makie causes, so I'm going to close this issue as not actionable for us.