albydarned
Hello all!
I am typing this post from my new MacBook Pro with the M1 chip. I’m loving it so far, and will probably use it as my daily driver.
Wondering if anyone out there has had any luck installing elixir and Erlang using a version manager like asdf? I’ve been trying but getting a few build errors. If it takes considerable effort I’ll probably remote into a server to do whatever elixir development I need to until its more documented and better supported.
Thanks
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josevalim
Try compiling it from the GitHub repo, in particular, the
maintbranch, as there have been some fixes related to BigSur recently: Fix the make configuration for macOS 11.0.1 by idyll · Pull Request #2865 · erlang/otp · GitHubalbydarned
Thanks Jose!
I was able to get everything working by installing homebrew using rosetta 2. I followed this guide: Homebrew on Apple Silicon — Sam Soffes
Still haven’t had much success installing older versions or using ASDF but 1.11 will work for what I need.
type1fool
Homebrew has a compatibility tracker for several formulae.
https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/issues/7857?ref=dtf.ru
aenglisc
Speaking of which, I wonder if the ERTS would work fine with asymmetric cores.
hauleth
I see no reason why not, all is up to the system scheduler. It can be tested on LITTLE.big architecture from ARM (M1 uses similar approach).
DanBunea
Hi @albydarned,
I plan to buy an M1 Pro. My development is now pretty much only Elixir (Phoenix/LiveView etc). So if I can install Elixir using Homebrew (with Rosetta2), it seems I can push the Order button.
Am I right?
Thanks,
Dan
wojtekmach
I have an experimental project that is a one click install of OTP+Elixir that you might find helpful:
The script simply downloads precompiled OTP & Elixir releases. See GitHub - wojtekmach/beamup · GitHub. Currently the only available OTP release is 23.1.4 on ,
darwin-x86_64,darwin-arm64,linux-x86_64, andlinux-armv7l(built on rpi4).If you have a Mac with M1, this should work out of the box natively as well as via Rosetta 2.
As I mentioned initially, this is just a proof of concept. I had brief discussion with members of OTP team on attaching pre-compiled builds to new OTP releases, for macOS in particular. If GitHub ever exposes darwin-amd64 as a target, we’d definitely take advantage of that too.
That being said, you’d most likely want to use Homebrew for other things so it might make sense to use the unofficial support or wait for the official one. I’m personally trying out MacPorts this time around and it seems to work pretty well though it can’t install erlang yet.
aenglisc
NIce! The “about” link seems to be incorrect though.
wojtekmach
thanks, fixed!
albydarned
Has anyone here had success installing older versions of elixir or OTP?
Using brew to install elixir 1.11 has worked great, but I have some older projects I want to support.