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That's weird using libraries almost always just works? Did you install them via the package manager? If you just git clones them then you will need to tell the package manager about them e.g. via `add`/`dev`ing the local path, + `Pkg.resolve`.

I recommend asking for help on the Julia Discourse. http://Discourse.julialang.org/

The package manager is one of my favorite things about Julia. No more dependency hell. Just type "add <package>" in the REPL.

I have only seen this happen with packages that depend on non-julia libraries, such as ARPACK, but the move to providing binaries with BinaryBuilder should fix this.

That might well be the issue, these were game/gui libraries. What's the timeframe on BinaryBuilder?

BinaryBuilder/BinaryProvider are 100% functional and have been deployed and working for a long time now. The timeframes for individual packages to move to using them instead of ad-hoc build scripts, however, varies. It's generally very quick to do this, but complicated chains of binary dependencies can be a pain.