wojtekmach
Hey everyone, I’m happy to announce GitHub - erlef/otp_builds: Community-maintained pre-compiled Erlang/OTP for macOS · GitHub.
Example:
$ url=https://github.com/erlef/otp_builds/releases/download/OTP-27.1.2/otp-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz
$ dir=/tmp/otp
$ mkdir $dir ; tar xzf <(curl -fL $url) -C $dir
$ $dir/bin/erl
Erlang/OTP 27 [erts-15.1.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1] [jit]
Eshell V15.1.2 (press Ctrl+G to abort, type help(). for help)
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The goal of the builds is to be as self-contained as possible, i.e. you don’t need to install homebrew, openssl, wxwidgets, etc, it should just work out of the box.
We even have builds for Erlang/OTP master: https://github.com/erlef/otp_builds/releases/download/master-latest/otp-aarch64-apple-darwin.tar.gz.
See GitHub - erlef/otp_builds: Community-maintained pre-compiled Erlang/OTP for macOS · GitHub for more information.
Happy downloading!
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zachallaun
Cool!
Is the plan to eventually move all pre-compiled OTP builds here, as opposed to just those for MacOS? This would simplify various version management tooling such that it wouldn’t have to choose between this and Hex Bob.
wojtekmach
Yes, I plan to move Bob Ubuntu builds to that repository eventually.
geoffrey
Hi @wojtekmach,
Thank you for the project, it can definitively smooth things to get Erlang up and running on macOS.
I had a question, do you have any recommendations where to install Erlang on macOS? The example you provided is using
/tmpbut I suspect it can’t be a definitive location.Thank you.
wojtekmach
No particular recommendation, I personally like to put stuff like that into ~/opt/thing that mirrors /opt/thing.
Btw and it is not publicized yet but there’s a new Elixir installation method using these precompiled macOS, check out Installing Elixir - The Elixir programming language. The directory it installs them to is ~/.elixir-install/installs.
zacky1972
Hi,
I created
erl_install.shto install community-maintained OTP builds for macOS with verification: