ryanswapp

ryanswapp

Trouble installing Erlang via asdf on new M2 mac

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

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

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

Eiji

The log should be located somewhere in .asdf directory. Can’t say where exactly as for longer time I’m using prebuild releases for Ubuntu.

maz

maz

That’s a pretty old version of Erlang. To make sure it’s not an issue with asdf, try:

asdf install erlang 25.2

which 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

adamu

You can also try taking out the asdf middleman and use kerl directly.

brihas

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

ryanswapp OP

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

RudManusachi

A few months ago I installed on M2 with the following flags
https://twitter.com/josevalim/status/1507608988577316865

adamu

adamu

Just to clarify, my suggestion was to use kerl.

There are multiple levels of abstraction when installing Erlang from source.

  1. Compile it directly
  2. Use kerl, which is a utility script that helps you compile and manage multiple versions.
  3. Use asdf, which is a wrapper around kerl that makes things simpler still, but harder to debug when they go wrong.
Eiji

Eiji

Isn’t build log enough? In asdf-erlang repository 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

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