From b9933c56eae7314d97cddbf6578408e01c6640b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SimonDanisch <sdanisch@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 20:24:27 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] init that works with precompile (and fixes non
 initialization)

---
 src/CUBLAS.jl | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/CUBLAS.jl b/src/CUBLAS.jl
index 10a0949..1658eb3 100644
--- a/src/CUBLAS.jl
+++ b/src/CUBLAS.jl
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 # Created: 2014-08-27
 # License: MIT
 #
-
+__precompile__(true)
 module CUBLAS
 using Compat
 importall Base.LinAlg.BLAS
@@ -74,16 +74,19 @@ end
 # find the cublas library
 const libcublas = Libdl.find_library(["libcublas"], ["/usr/local/cuda"])
 if isempty(libcublas)
-    error("CUBLAS library cannot be found")
+    error("CUBLAS library cannot be found. Please make sure that CUDA is installed")
 end
 
 include("libcublas.jl")
 
 # setup cublas handle
-cublashandle = cublasHandle_t[0]
-cublasCreate_v2(cublashandle)
-# destroy cublas handle at julia exit
-atexit(()->cublasDestroy_v2(cublashandle[1]))
+const cublashandle = cublasHandle_t[0]
+
+function __init__()
+    cublasCreate_v2(cublashandle)
+    # destroy cublas handle at julia exit
+    atexit(()->cublasDestroy_v2(cublashandle[1]))
+end
 
 include("blas.jl")
 include("highlevel.jl")

From e3ba4c8deed6f90cdb13cf0220ccb62a53142a3f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: SimonDanisch <sdanisch@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 May 2017 20:27:09 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] remove Compat

---
 REQUIRE       | 1 -
 src/CUBLAS.jl | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/REQUIRE b/REQUIRE
index 2fecf01..0cf5fd9 100644
--- a/REQUIRE
+++ b/REQUIRE
@@ -1,3 +1,2 @@
 julia 0.5
-Compat 0.18.0
 CUDArt 0.3.0
diff --git a/src/CUBLAS.jl b/src/CUBLAS.jl
index 1658eb3..63455a7 100644
--- a/src/CUBLAS.jl
+++ b/src/CUBLAS.jl
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 #
 __precompile__(true)
 module CUBLAS
-using Compat
+
 importall Base.LinAlg.BLAS
 
 using CUDArt