bryanhuntesl
Biggest challenges in setting up a desktop Elixir development environment
Perhaps we as community need to do something to make it easier to install Elixir on the various desktops.
What do people think? What are the pain-points getting Elixir installed and an environment configured.
Is the fact that you have to install both Erlang and Elixir to have a development environment an inconvenience?
Primarily, interested in the experience on Mac, and Windows - for Linux you’ve got the choice of asdf/kerl/distro packages/erlang solutions packages so I don’t think it’s such an issue.
Anyhow, any feedback welcome.
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pdgonzalez872
yep, asdf is actually the preferred way to install it for us.
@bryanhuntesl I think installing Erlang and Elixir to your machine is a pretty straight forward ask if you want to use Elixir, right?
The main issues I’ve seen with installation problems is not following the asdf readme. There are a couple of steps that do make a difference. Also, the order as well, installing Erlang first (with a certain OTP version), then Elixir (with a matching OTP version).
I have seen issues where mixing brew with asdf caused some pain, but was never able to duplicate and folks resolved on their own after using asdf. Once folks started using only asdf, issues went away.
axelson
If you’re using asdf I think the biggest pain point is installing erlang, since it installs from source and compilation takes a good 20+ minutes. I’m sure there’s others as well, but that’s my largest pain point.
garazdawi
The .tar.gz files on Index of /download/ are precompiled. Though they are only available for major and maintenance releases, not patches.
As of OTP-23.1 (to be released soon), we will also include a prebuilt tar.gz with all releases (major, maint and patch) on github.
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