Elixir on Windows: Week 9 Review

[Chris Hyndman]

Hi everyone,

Below is the ninth weekly review for Elixir on Windows.  Please let me know if you have any questions or comments.

Thank you!

Chris Hyndman
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Mathematics and Computer Science

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ELIXIR ON WINDOWS

Week 9 Review

GSoC 2014

 

FINISHED WORK

First, I focused on correcting the issue with `call` in bin\mix.bat, which was solved by using the same code as in bin\mix directly as arguments (see https://github.com/elixir-lang/elixir/pull/2541). 

 

Then, I worked on documenting the installer; I went through the code and added comments, and added documentation on building the installer (see https://github.com/chyndman/elixir-windows-setup#build-instructions).  The installer is now at version 0.59 (see https://github.com/chyndman/elixir-windows-setup/releases).

 

NEXT STEPS

Now that José's logger is in the works, I'll be assisting in testing it from a Windows perspective.  I'll also be working on IEx with regards to offering more flexibility in using erl.exe on the console or the werl.exe console.

 

GENERAL NOTES

Unfortunately I won't be joining everyone at ElixirConf in Austin next weekend, but I hope everyone enjoys themselves and that the conference lives up to the excitement it's generated!

[José Valim]

Chris, what is pending for us to move the installer to version 1.0? :)

José Valim

www.plataformatec.com.br

Skype: jv.ptec

Founder and Lead Developer

[Chris Hyndman]

Hm, that's a good question!  The main reason is simply that I haven't done much rigorous testing.  But perhaps it's safe to release 1.0 pretty soon anyway.  There's also some publisher fields we should decide on (eg. do we label the installer as coming from Plataformatec / José Valim et al. / Chris Hyndman ?)

[Kiril Tsarnakliyski]

I've tried to install Elixir on WIndows with this installer and also with Chocolatey and I always got this error when I try to use elixir.bat or mix.bat - http://pastebin.com/MKW2viDz.

Anyone who can help me?

[Onorio Catenacci]

On Monday, July 21, 2014 2:50:36 PM UTC-4, Kiril Tsarnakliyski wrote:

I've tried to install Elixir on WIndows with this installer and also with Chocolatey and I always got this error when I try to use elixir.bat or mix.bat - http://pastebin.com/MKW2viDz.

Anyone who can help me?

That looks like it's an error with the version of Erlang which is installed.  I'd make sure you completely uninstall any version of Erlang on your machine and then reinstall. 

Which version of Elixir are you trying to install by the way?

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Onorio

 

 

[Kiril Tsarnakliyski]

Latest Elixir version (14.3) and i got only Erlang version 6.1 that was installed from the wizard.

[Onorio Catenacci]

And which version of Windows?  What happens when you try to start iex.bat? The only times I've ever seen that  "init terminating in do_boot ()" it's because something got installed incorrectly.  

What happens when you type erl from a command line?  Does the erlang repl start correctly?

--

Onorio

 

[Kiril Tsarnakliyski]

- Windows 8.1

- iex.bat starts Elixir interactive shell in "werl" application (not in console)

- When i try to start  "erl" it gives me the same error as above, but i can start "werl"

[Kiril Tsarnakliyski]

OK I fixed it :)

I found an old version of Erlang that wasn't uninstalled properly and when I removed it and re installed Erlang it's now working :)

[Onorio Catenacci]

Glad to hear you were able to straighten this out.