Erlang Examples

Last post was about building Erlang B13R04 in Ubuntu. For CentOS, it’s somehow the same with yum

sudo yum -y install make gcc gcc-c++ kernel-devel m4 ncurses-devel openssl-devel
wget http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R13B04.tar.gz
tar xfvz otp_src_R13B04.tar.gz
cd otp_src_R13B04/
./configure --with-ssl
sudo make install

However, I haven’t found the similar package to xsltproc and fop yet. But it’s only for building the documentation which I don’t really need.

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Frankly speaking, I always use apt-get to install Erlang rather than building from source… lazy huh? Unfortunately, when I apt-get in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic, only Erlang/OTP R13B01 (5.7.2) is available whereas the latest is R13B04 (5.7.5) which is required to build Riak (actually rebar requires 5.7.4 and above)…

It takes around 10-15 min to build, and these are the required libraries and dependencies

sudo apt-get install build-essential m4 libncurses5-dev libssl-dev xsltproc fop
axel -n 20 http://www.erlang.org/download/otp_src_R13B04.tar.gz
tar xfvz otp_src_R13B04.tar.gz
cd otp_src_R13B04/
./configure --with-ssl
sudo make install

Here i’m using axel for fast download, it’s your choice to use curl or wget.

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Well, it depends on what OS you are running. Saying that, I mean NOT building the source code. 

Windows

Just download the binaries from Erlang website and run the exe file

Linux

apt-get is your friend, just do sudo apt-get install erlang.

Mac OSX

I installed MacPorts and did sudo port install erlang, and it works!

Solaris

This is a bit tricky as I can’t find any official Sun package for Erlang, you have to either compile from source or follow these instructions:

• Determine Solaris version and machine type (sparx or i386)
  uname -a
• Go to the corresponding folder in http://www.iforceready.it/pub/csw/stable , or other mirrors
• Download the following packages
  1. common
  2. ncurses
  3. libiconv
  4. readline
  5. unixodbc
  6. openssl_rt
  7. openssl_devel
  8. openssl_utils
  9. openssl
  10. erlang
• Unzip and install them in the above order
  sudo pkgadd -d <<package name >>
• And the path to erl is /opt/csw/bin

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