Running new_mochiweb.erl with cygwin

[Sameer Gupta]

Hello,

I have installed erlang on windows and I am trying to run
new_mochiweb.erl. I see this error. I am new to both erlang &
mochiweb. Can somebody explain what this error is about and how to get
around it?

Before running new_mochiweb.erl, I compiled the mochiweb using
mochiweb/make.

My cygwin bash output:

Sam@Sam-PC ~/mochiweb-read-only
$ ./scripts/new_mochiweb.erl myapp ../.
./myapp/
./myapp/support/
include.mk
start.sh
start-dev.sh
./myapp/src/
skel_web.erl
skel_sup.erl
skel_deps.erl
skel_app.erl
skel.hrl
skel.erl
skel.app
Makefile
./myapp/priv/
./myapp/priv/www/
index.html
Makefile
./myapp/include/
./myapp/ebin/
skel_web.beam
skel_sup.beam
skel_deps.beam
skel_app.beam
skel.beam
skel.app
./myapp/doc/
skel_web.html
skel_sup.html
skel_deps.html
skel_app.html
skel.html
./myapp/deps/
escript: exception error: no match of right hand side value
{error,enotsup}
in function mochiweb_skel:skelcopy/2
in call from erl_eval:do_apply/5
in call from erl_eval:expr/5
in call from erl_eval:local_func/5
in call from escript:interpret/3
in call from escript:start/1
in call from init:start_it/1
in call from init:start_em/1

Sam@Sam-PC ~/mochiweb-read-only
$

Thanks.

Best
Sameer

[Bob Ippolito]

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Sameer Gupta <guptas...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have installed erlang on windows and I am trying to run
> new_mochiweb.erl. I see this error. I am new to both erlang &
> mochiweb. Can somebody explain what this error is about and how to get
> around it?

Nobody on the mochiweb team uses Windows for Erlang development. Mac
OS X, FreeBSD and Linux are known to work. {error,enotsup} sounds like
it's trying to do something unsupported (my guess is the symbolic link
in deps).

-bob

[Sameer Gupta]

Thanks, Bob.

Can you tell me which Linux distro I should download so that I can
continue to get support from the community? And from where to
download? The main purpose is to run Erlang and Mochiweb.

I think, I will be running this as virtual machine. Not sure.

Thanks.

Best
Sameer

On Nov 10, 7:25 am, Bob Ippolito <b...@redivi.com> wrote:

[Bob Ippolito]

We currently use CentOS, but we have used Ubuntu in the past. Debian
or anything else should work just fine. The only unsupported platform
really is Windows, any sufficiently unix-like OS should have no
problems.