Date: Thu, 23 Mar 2017 12:03:04 +0000 From: Arthur Chance <freebsd@qeng-ho.org> To: "R, Asha" <Asha.R2@netapp.com>, "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Query on Erlang OTP Message-ID: <4f1d8dad-52bf-2292-a485-5cd03c394579@qeng-ho.org> In-Reply-To: <CY1PR06MB1882A72AE9E355C4D8CEE536DE3F0@CY1PR06MB1882.namprd06.prod.outlook.com> References: <CY1PR06MB1882A72AE9E355C4D8CEE536DE3F0@CY1PR06MB1882.namprd06.prod.outlook.com>
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On 23/03/2017 05:19, R, Asha wrote: > I am student working on a project based on VerneMQ and I am new to > FreeBSD and Erlang. I am trying to compile Erlang OTP on FreeBSD but > I am not finding the package for download and installation from > GitHub. > > Could you please help me with this? I'm presuming you have superuser (aka Admin) rights on the machine you're working on in the following. Erlang works fine on FreeBSD. I use Elixir which is based over the Erlang VM and runtime. You install Erlang from the lang/erlang port, not directly from Github. If you're not familiar with the FreeBSD ports and packages system, take a look at the Handbook starting here https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ports.html As a quick summary, ports are source code you compile yourself, pkgs are precompiled ports with a standard set of options made available by the FreeBSD developers. (The rest of the Handbook is worth reading as well if you are new to FreeBSD.) As you're just starting out, I suggest you use the pkg system. This can be as simple as pkg install lang/erlang for the basic system. There are lots of Erlang related ports available as well. This URL https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=erlang&stype=all shows a rather overwhelming list of Erlang related ports. If you hit problems, come back to this mailing list. People round here are generally happy to help beginners. -- By June 1949, people had begun to realize that it was not so easy to get a program right as had at one time appeared. It was on one of my journeys between the EDSAC room and the punching equipment that the realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding errors in my own programs. -- Maurice Wilkes
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