tsuyoshi84
I’ve been trying to debug just a simple Phoenix application with IntelliJ, but it doesn’t work.
Firstly, I created a “hello” Phoenix application with the following command.
mix phx.new hello --no-ecto --no-brunch
Then, I created a IntelliJ project by importing the source code and set up the Run/Debug configurations. However, when I try to run the project, it shows the following messages.
/Users/tsuyoshi.yamaguchi/erlang/20.3/bin/erl -noshell -s elixir start_cli -extra /Users/tsuyoshi.yamaguchi/.kiex/elixirs/elixir-1.6.5/bin/mix phx.server
{“init terminating in do_boot”,{undef,[{elixir,start_cli,,},{init,start_em,1,},{init,do_boot,3,}]}}
init terminating in do_boot ({undef,[{elixir,start_cli,,},{init,start_em,1,},{init,do_boot,3,}]})Crash dump is being written to: erl_crash.dump…done
I read this post and checked my configurations, but it seems fine.
Is there any idea what is the problem?
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sribe
IIRC, I never got debugging working in IntelliJ, but it did work in VS Code.
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KronicDeth
Check that your SDKs are setup. They should have been created during the import if missing:
.../elixir/ebinanderlang/lib/kernel-5.4.1/ebin9 .Click Project Settings > Modules
tsuyoshi84
Thank you! I made sure VS Code provides the debug capability and it works
KronicDeth
Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply check they exist on-disk. I mean that they should appear in your Classpath tab. Here’s what it looks like locally for me, using homebrew:
I’m going to guess that something is missing with the
kiexand/orkerlsupport. You should be able to work-around this issue by manually adding theebindirectories using the + button the Classpath tab.Last Post!
seanwash
This just helped me out. Thanks for posting your solution!