[erlang-questions] Erlang application packaging

[Jean Parpaillon]

Hi,

Le jeudi 20 septembre 2012 à 17:49 +0200, Ali Sabil a écrit :
> Ok, sorry :)
> 
No harm, I was suggesting myself to reread it :)

> Basically in Erlang, the concept of release is pretty close to the
> concept of Linux distributions, a release allows you to package the
> erlang runtime and a set of applications together into a distribution.
> The easiest way to generate releases is probably by using rebar. Here
> is a small quickstart on how to generate a release using rebar:
> 
>   mkdir -p product && cd product
>   wget http://cloud.github.com/downloads/basho/rebar/rebar && chmod u+x rebar
>   mkdir rel && cd rel
>   ../rebar create-node nodeid=product
>   # edit the reltool.config file to remove the non-existing product
> application from the release
>   # this is done by removing the product atom right after the sasl
> atom and the comma separating them
>   # as well as {app, product, [{incl_cond, include}]} and the comma before it
>   # this is to have a running release
>   ../rebar generate
>   ./product/bin/product console  # this will start a node based on your release
> 
> The applications you want to include are generally placed in apps/
> and/or deps/ at the root and you just need to edit the reltool.config
> file and add
>   {lib_dirs, ["../apps", "../deps"]}
> inside the sys section
> 
> That said you might not really need to use a release to package your
> application, if you have an erlang runtime available on the target
> machine you could either turn your application into an escript (the
> escriptize command in rebar) or use a shell script.
> 

Ok, I think I got the different parts of the release process. Now, if I
follow a rebar tutorial and try to launch the code:
- If I do:
$ erl -pa ebin
then
> application:start(myapp).

My application is fine and running

- If I do:
$ erl -pa ebin -s myapp
I got the following error:
{"init terminating in
do_boot",{undef,[{kernel,start,[],[]},{init,start_it,1,[]},{init,start_em,1,[]}]}}


Any hints ? 

Thank you again for your time !

Jean

> Hope this helps,
> Ali
> 
> 
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 4:33 PM, Jean Parpaillon
> <jean.parpaillon@REDACTED> wrote:
> > Hi Ali
> > Thank you for your help.
> > I've begun erlang with this tutorial but I have to admit I am still
> > confused about the right tool to use. Just in learnyou..., reltool and
> > systools are presented.
> > Let's read again this chapter :)
> >
> > Regards,
> > Jean
> >
> > Le jeudi 20 septembre 2012 à 16:11 +0200, Ali Sabil a écrit :
> >> Hi Jean,
> >>
> >> I don't know if you have come across this:
> >> http://learnyousomeerlang.com/release-is-the-word#am-i-an-executable-yet
> >> but it might be helpful?
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Ali
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Jean Parpaillon
> >> <jean.parpaillon@REDACTED> wrote:
> >> > Hi all,
> >> > I'm Jean Parpaillon, new erlang enthusiast and (soon) programmer. On 7
> >> > past years, I've workedon distributed systems, specially in HPC and
> >> > cloud computing. I'm trying to develop an XMPP agent for system
> >> > management, written in Erlang. This is the introduction, now the
> >> > question :)
> >> > What is your preferred packaging/deployment system for erlang ? I have a
> >> > code running, from erlang shell, and want it to become a real world
> >> > application the user can install from an archive and launch from its
> >> > shell, eventually with some parameters.
> >> >
> >> > I've read about systools, and how to generated .app, .appup, .rel, .boot
> >> > and so on. This looks fine but a lot to do by hand. When it comes to
> >> > update a file, and release the whole stuff, one have to modify plenty of
> >> > others. Or am I wrong ?
> >> > I've looked to existing applications or 'helloworld's: some of them
> >> > using autotools (ejabberd, ...), a lot of others using rebar, sometime a
> >> > little a bit of both, iirc.
> >> > rebar has a lot of magic, which makes debugging hard.
> >> > autotools is not well designed for erlang, but putting some existing m4
> >> > files here and there seems to fit. At least, I know autotools well. I
> >> > know how can I generate .app, .rel and so on with autotools, but I don't
> >> > know what to put in it :/
> >> > At the end, for launching the application, I've seen many projects not
> >> > using .boot files, but a shell script with tons of arguments to erl...
> >> >
> >> > I'm a little bit confused :( Any help ?
> >> >
> >> > Best regards,
> >> > --
> >> > Jean Parpaillon
> >> > Open Source Consultant
> >> > Phone: +33 6 30 10 92 86
> >> > im: jean.parpaillon@REDACTED
> >> > skype: jean.parpaillon
> >> > linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanparpaillon/en
> >> >
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> > Jean Parpaillon
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> >

-- 
Jean Parpaillon
Open Source Consultant
Phone: +33 6 30 10 92 86
im: jean.parpaillon@REDACTED
skype: jean.parpaillon
linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanparpaillon/en

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