Elixir Installer For Windows

Have run into this severally at client sites (both windows server and windows 10)

What I do is simply request that the machine/account be granted the required internet permissions.

You may even have further issues if you need to run mix.deps down the line

Yeah I was afraid of that. I think the chance of getting them to unblock this is pretty slim. Thanks anyway Charles!

I’d suggest you install and use WSL2 so you have an actual Linux experience inside Windows. Then you could use asdf which is the widely accepted method of installing Erlang / Elixir.

Agree that WSL2 offers the best experience on Windows (assuming @Onor.io doesn’t need to do anything Windows-specific). But mightn’t that fall foul of the same firewall strictures?

There is a precompiled win32 install available for Elixir: Installing Elixir - The Elixir programming language. And the Windows builds of Erlang at Downloads - Erlang/OTP look like full compiled packages. I haven’t tried this though.

Ah, that’s not even a discussion. If you’re supposed to do programming but can’t download your development environment then you might as well escalate your IT ticket to the CTO and take a 6-month long paid vacation until they sort out their dysfunctional bureaucracy.

Can you download from the links here GitHub - hexpm/bob: The Builder · GitHub ?

Thanks for all the suggestions!

In fairness to my employers I am trying to convince them to look at Elixir. And blocking the download of .zip files containing binaries is just a security measure. I can, of course, ask them to make an exception; I was just trying to see if there were any way I could proceed without having to trouble the security folks. They’re, justifiably, reluctant to grant special exceptions.

Just now…

This is new project on a client site, it’s kinda hard to get clients to give “more than usual internet access”

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.3.9600]
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D:\Paperless\PeopleCost\server>mix deps.get
Could not find Hex, which is needed to build dependency :tzdata
Shall I install Hex? (if running non-interactively, use "mix local.hex --force") [Yn] y
** (Mix) httpc request failed with: {:failed_connect, [{:to_address, {'repo.hex.pm', 443}}, {:inet, [:inet], :etimedout}]}

Could not install Hex because Mix could not download metadata at https://repo.hex.pm/installs/hex-1.x.csv.

Alternatively, you can compile and install Hex directly with this command:

    mix archive.install github hexpm/hex branch latest


D:\Paperless\PeopleCost\server>mix archive.install github hexpm/hex branch latest
* Getting new package (https://github.com/hexpm/hex.git - origin/latest)
starting fsmonitor-daemon in 'C:/Users/!85010528/AppData/Local/Temp/mix-local-installer-fetcher-TvUxvA/deps/new package'
fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/hexpm/hex.git/': Failed to connect to github.com port 443 after 21122 ms: Timed out
** (Mix) Command "git --git-dir=.git fetch --force --quiet --progress" failed

D:\Paperless\PeopleCost\server>

is hex down?

Looks like you couldn’t connect to GitHub?

can connect from the browser on the same server… strange.

also i’m using an elevated console

D:\Paperless\PeopleCost\server>mix local.hex --force
** (Mix) httpc request failed with: {:failed_connect, [{:to_address, {'repo.hex.pm', 443}}, {:inet, [:inet], :etimedout}]}

Could not install Hex because Mix could not download metadata at https://repo.hex.pm/installs/hex-1.x.csv.

Alternatively, you can compile and install Hex directly with this command:

    mix archive.install github hexpm/hex branch latest


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