ryanswapp
I just got my new M2 macbook pro in the mail! Excited to get going with it but am having trouble installing Erlang…
I installed asdf through the official git method per their website. I then did the before erlang plugin install instructions on the readme and installed the plugin. Then I tried to install erlang and it just sits at the build step… it’s been there for hours without failing. I assume something has gone wrong but am unsure of how to check? Any help is appreciated.
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D4no0
You could try to find if asdf has something like verbose flags, otherwise you can clone the git repository and try to compile it yourself. Note that compilation process is quite resource hungry and might take from 10 to 20 minutes on an idle machine.
dimitarvp
Check if you use the actual ARM version of the terminal, whether you are not using Rosetta by mistake etc.
The usual stuff.
Eiji
The log should be located somewhere in
.asdfdirectory. Can’t say where exactly as for longer time I’m using prebuild releases forUbuntu.maz
That’s a pretty old version of Erlang. To make sure it’s not an issue with asdf, try:
asdf install erlang 25.2which has probably been compiled with the apple silicon binary slice.
If installing erlang 25.2 is fine, then you will definitely have to compile 23.3.4.9.
adamu
You can also try taking out the asdf middleman and use
kerldirectly.brihas
Hi,
You might be facing this issue https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang/issues/141. I had the same issue couple of weeks before and this comment solved the problem for mehttps://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang/issues/141#issuecomment-689084393, hope it helps
ryanswapp
This worked! Thank you!
Also, thanks to everyone else who responded. I did install later versions (25.2) with asdf and it worked perfectly. I was looking at compiling directly but then decided to try @adamu solution of copying from homebrew install and that now works.
RudManusachi
A few months ago I installed on M2 with the following flags
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1507608988577316865
adamu
Just to clarify, my suggestion was to use kerl.
There are multiple levels of abstraction when installing Erlang from source.
Eiji
Isn’t build log enough? In
asdf-erlangrepository there are few issues with it used, for example:https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang/issues/264
The path to build log in this case would be:
$HOME/.asdf/plugins/erlang/kerl-home/builds/asdf_23.3.4.9/otp_build_23.3.4.9.log