escript works - !! yes

[Mark Scandariato]

Is ~joe/installed/... on your path too?

When I installed it, beam_evm wasn't moved from the build directory and 
ERLANG_EARS was pointing to the build directory, too. (This didn't work 
out too well for me: I built it in a solaris /tmp filesystem).

I had to manually copy beam_evm and mung the beginning of 
ecc/elink/escript/ear with the correct path.

Once I did that everything worked.

Mark.

Joe Armstrong wrote:
>   Oh happy day
> 
>   I found  to my *amazement* that  escript etc all seems  to get build
> automatically in the R9C-2 build and everything works nicely. Thanks guys
> great work.
> 
>   This  seems  to  be   sparsely  documented  so  I've  appended  some
> information to get you started at the end of this mail.
> 
>   Personally  I very much  like Erlang  scripts, ideal  for automating
> lots of trivial tasks.
> 
>   Questions:
>  
>   1) Is the fact that this works a happy coincidence - I haven't dared
> test the other stuff elink etc.
> 
>   2) Does the fact  that this still work mean  that stand-alone Erlang
> is still on the agenda?
> 
> Cheers
> 
> /Joe
> 
>   If you want to try this at home do like this:
> 
>   1) Build R9C-2
> 
>   2) Put a couple of symlinks so that escript and beam_evm can be found
> 
>     On my home machine I did this:
> 
>     $ cd ~/bin
>     $ ln -s /home/joe/installed/otp_src_R9C-2/erts/boot/src/escript
>     $ ln -s /home/joe/installed/otp_src_R9C-2/bin/i686-pc-linux-gnu/beam_evm
> 
>     (~/bin is in my path and ~joe/installed/... is where I built R9C)
> 
>     After this erlang scripting sprang into life:
> 
> Here are two example scripts
> 
> --- fib1 ---
> 
> #!/usr/bin/env escript
> 
> -export([main/1]).
> 
> main([X]) ->
>     J = list_to_integer(X),
>     N = fib(J),
>     io:format("fib ~w = ~w~n",[J, N]).
> 
> fib(0) -> 0;
> fib(1) -> 1;
> fib(N) ->
>     fib(N-1) + fib(N-2).
> 
> --- fib2 ----
> #!/usr/bin/env escript
> 
> -export([main/1]).
> 
> -mode(compile).
> 
> main([X]) ->
>     J = list_to_integer(X),
>     N = fib(J),
>     io:format("fib ~w = ~w~n",[J, N]).
> 
> fib(0) -> 0;
> fib(1) -> 1;
> fib(N) ->
>     fib(N-1) + fib(N-2).
> 
> 
> Just chmod them to executable and off you go.
> 
> --------------------
> 
> The timings are reasonably ok
> 
>     $ ./fib1 1 (0.06 sec)
>     $ ./fib2 1 (0.16 sec)
>     $ ./fib1 25 (3.06 sec)
>     $ ./fib2 25 (0.19 sec)
> 
> fib2 has a compile annotation, so for lengthy calculations it is better
> to incur the 0.14 sec compilation overhead.
> 
>