Fl4m3Ph03n1x
Background
When trying to execute mix release on a Windows 11 machine for a Phoenix project I get the following error:
* assembling market_manager-2.1.5 on MIX_ENV=prod
* using config/runtime.exs to configure the release at runtime
←[32m* assembling←[39m bakeware market_manager
** (ArgumentError) unknown application: :bakeware
(elixir 1.15.4) lib/application.ex:1010: Application.app_dir/1
(elixir 1.15.4) lib/application.ex:1041: Application.app_dir/2
(bakeware 0.2.4) lib/bakeware/assembler.ex:71: Bakeware.Assembler.create_paths/1
(bakeware 0.2.4) lib/bakeware/assembler.ex:83: Bakeware.Assembler.do_assemble/1
(bakeware 0.2.4) lib/bakeware/assembler.ex:37: Bakeware.Assembler.assemble/1
(mix 1.15.4) lib/mix/tasks/release.ex:1064: Mix.Tasks.Release.run_steps/1
(mix 1.15.4) lib/mix/task.ex:447: anonymous fn/3 in Mix.Task.run_task/5
(mix 1.15.4) lib/mix/cli.ex:92: Mix.CLI.run_task/2
I am using PowerShell with Admin privileges and I have set the following env variables:
$env:CC="gcc"
$env:MAKE="make"
$env:MIX_ENV="prod"
I have installed all the dependencies via choco with choco install -y zstandard make mingw.
Further, here are my system settings:
Edition Windows 11 Home
Version 22H2
OS build 22621.2283
Experience Windows Feature Experience Pack 1000.22662.1000.0
I am using: {:bakeware, "~> 0.2.4"} with Elixir 1.15.4 (compiled with Erlang/OTP 24)
I develop for windows users, so I can’t use Linux here.
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Why cant I make bakeware work?
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Fl4m3Ph03n1x
It unfortunately seems that, at the time of writing this post, Bakeware is not being actively maintained. The successor appears to be Burrito:
However that does not work for windows either:
So I had to go with an alternative, in order to achieve a Windows release. This alternative solution uses Windows shortcuts and seems to work as a short term solution for anyone trying to have an easy launcher for Elixir applications in Windows systems:
If you are from the future and the official Bakeware issue post found a positive resolution, do feel free to update this thread. For the time being however, I am closing this.
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ken-kost
For debugging purposes you could make a fresh project in elixir 1.10 and try to release it using bakeware. If it works, try the same in 1.15.