create_app Error: could not find project

[phanos-engineer]

I downloaded the MyApp example with Julia 1.8.

I could not get create_app to work. It results in ERROR: could not find project error.

Julia Version: Version 1.8.2 (2022-09-29) from the main download site.
OS: Linux (Arch) 6.0.2-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Sat, 15 Oct 2022 14:00:49 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

Here is what I ran and the output I got.

/tmp/julia/PackageCompiler.jl-master/examples/MyApp/ $ /opt/julia/bin/julia --project=.

               _
   _       _ _(_)_     |  Documentation: https://docs.julialang.org
  (_)     | (_) (_)    |
   _ _   _| |_  __ _   |  Type "?" for help, "]?" for Pkg help.
  | | | | | | |/ _` |  |
  | | |_| | | | (_| |  |  Version 1.8.2 (2022-09-29)
 _/ |\__'_|_|_|\__'_|  |  Official https://julialang.org/ release
|__/                   |

julia> using PackageCompiler

julia> create_app("MyApp","testbin1")
ERROR: could not find project at "MyApp"
Stacktrace:
 [1] error(s::String)
   @ Base ./error.jl:35
 [2] create_pkg_context(project::String)
   @ PackageCompiler ~/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/DKijm/src/PackageCompiler.jl:63
 [3] create_app(package_dir::String, app_dir::String; executables::Nothing, precompile_execution_file::Vector{String}, precompile_statements_file::Vector{String}, incremental::Bool, filter_stdlibs::Bool, force::Bool, c_driver_program::String, cpu_target::String, include_lazy_artifacts::Bool, sysimage_build_args::Cmd, include_transitive_dependencies::Bool)
   @ PackageCompiler ~/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/DKijm/src/PackageCompiler.jl:700
 [4] create_app(package_dir::String, app_dir::String)
   @ PackageCompiler ~/.julia/packages/PackageCompiler/DKijm/src/PackageCompiler.jl:685
 [5] top-level scope
   @ REPL[2]:1

[phanos-engineer]

I figured out the solution.

The first argument for the create_app is the path to the project directory folder. So my statement should have been create_app(".","testbin") or `create_app("../MyApp/","testbin").

I'll leave this ticket in case another newbie comes across the same issue.