Ah, you are referring to the erl → beam compilation, I was referring to the c/c++ → native code.
bryanhuntesl
bryanhuntesl
Yes this is an issue - specific case :
- Using Visual Studio Code and Elixir language server plugin.
- VS Code/ELS uses whatever you’ve set as your global Erlang/Elixir via ~/.tools-version.
- Check out a project that needs to be compiled with an earlier or later version and has a local .tools-version.
- Fails to compile, VS Code/ELS uses global .tools-version, ignores project specific one.
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bryanhuntesl
And people are only using asdf anyway because of all the backwards/forwards compatibility issues between R16 and R20. Doesn’t seem to be an issue in Erlang from the last 2 years thank goodness.
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CraigCottingham
CircleCI offers macOS/Xcode build environments. Whether they meet your definition of “trustworthy”, I can’t speak to.
I’m happy to assist however I can in getting builds running there if needed.
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BrentM
I’ve had a great experience using Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and VSCode for windows development. You get all the compatibility of Linux with a smooth Windows integration.
You just run “code .” on the VM and everything after that is pretty seamless.
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marcalchca
I’d like to use Phoenix/Elixir and Live View on Windows 10.
Nobody mentions issues with Windows.
Should that worry me, in the sense that maybe nobody uses Windows for development in Elixir? 
Thanks for your input.
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Ajaxdone
I use kerl to install Erlang, multiple version, and use . kerl/release/activate to activate specific version
I use kiex to use Elixir, multiple version, and use kiex use 1.9.4 to select version
I use VS Code with Elixir plugin, but auto-complete works sometimes only.
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axelson
Scenic Core Team
From what I can tell, there’s a decent number of users on Windows, and the Phoenix team has made fixes specific to windows (npm not supporting --prefix comes to mind). So I’d expect development on windows to work fine.
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Stratus3D
Asdf Core Team
We could add support for precompiled binaries to the asdf-erlang plugin. If a precompiled version is available on Index of /download/ we could just download it, and if not revert back to compiling Erlang manually. I know this isn’t the primary issue being discussed on this thread, but it could possibly help improve asdf-erlang support for windows.
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