[erlang-questions] clueless newbie can't compile

[Bengt Kleberg]

Greetings,

CEAN does not include all of Erlang/OTP in the initial install. The
compiler is not present.
You should be able to do:

cean:install(compile).


bengt

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 03:23 +0200, Robert Virding wrote:
> 2008/6/16 John Chandler <morph@REDACTED>:
>         I can't interpret the error message, either.
>         
>         And then, within erl, to type "c(tut).".  Which also seems
>         fine.  What
>         happens is:
>         
>         ====
>         1> c(tut).
>         ** exited:
>         {undef,[{compile,file,[tut,[report_errors,report_warnings]]},
>                            {c,c,2},
>                            {erl_eval,do_apply,5},
>                            {shell,exprs,6},
>                            {shell,eval_loop,3}]} **
>         
>         =ERROR REPORT==== 15-Jun-2008::20:07:51 ===
>         Error in process <0.29.0> with exit value:
>         {undef,[{compile,file,[tut,
>         [report_errors,report_warnings]]},{c,c,2},{erl_eval,do_apply,5},
>         {shell,exprs,6},{shell,eval_loop,3}]}
> 
> Not being familiar with CEAN I don't really know why, but the error
> report indicates that the function compile:file/2 is undefined, the
> 'undef ' error. In this case this is caused by Erlang not being able
> to find the compile module as we know the file/2 function exists in
> the module.
> 
> As I said I am not familiar with CEAN so I can't help you with *why*
> Erlang can't find the module.
> 
> Robert
> 
> 
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