[erlang-questions] Making a minimal distributable program in Erlang.

[Stu Bailey]

:-) Yes like that! :-)  Awesome

On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:40 AM, Ali Sabil <ali.sabil@REDACTED> wrote:

> Like this one: https://hub.docker.com/_/erlang/ ?
>
> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 12:35 PM, Stu Bailey <stu.bailey@REDACTED> wrote:
>
>> "As an afterthought - it would be *very nice* to have a program which
>> makes a minimal distributable program for Windows/Mac/Linux."
>>
>> Joe,
>>
>> It would be nice if Erlang had an official Docker image (e.g.
>> https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-windows/ ).  Such an image would
>> fulfill exactly your requirement. Here are the official Docker images for
>> other languagesl:
>>
>> https://hub.docker.com/_/python/
>> https://hub.docker.com/_/golang/
>> https://hub.docker.com/_/rust/
>> https://hub.docker.com/_/clojure/
>> https://hub.docker.com/_/java/
>>
>> I guess this is the start:
>>
>> https://github.com/erlang/docker-erlang
>>
>> Note this work:
>>
>> https://store.docker.com/community/images/library/rabbitmq
>>
>> Stu
>>
>> On Wed, Sep 20, 2017 at 3:22 AM, Joe Armstrong <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> I want to ship Erlang as a component inside a
>>> larger application to run on Windows
>>>
>>> Assuming the larger application has reserved space
>>> for Erlang at some destination directory $DEST then I need
>>> to copy a subset of the files from a standard
>>> distribution into $DEST.
>>>
>>> On a Mac I have reduced the number of necessary files to 11
>>> (could be 10 if you remove start.script)
>>>
>>> ├── COPYRIGHT
>>> ├── bin
>>> │   ├── beam.smp
>>> │   ├── erl_child_setup
>>> │   ├── erlexec
>>> │   ├── start.boot
>>> │   └── start.script
>>> ├── erl
>>> └── lib
>>>     ├── compiler-7.0.2.ez
>>>     ├── kernel-5.1.ez
>>>     ├── sasl-3.0.1.ez
>>>     └── stdlib-3.1.ez
>>>
>>> I've thrown away all the libraries apart from compiler etc.
>>>
>>> I'm trying (unsuccessfully) to do the same thing on windows - does
>>> anybody
>>> know how to make a minimal Erlang for windows? - which files must be
>>> copied and which files must be patched????
>>>
>>> As an afterthought - it would be *very nice* to have a program which
>>> makes a minimal distributable program for Windows/Mac/Linux.
>>>
>>> I was thinking along the lines of running the program twice - in run one
>>> I'd trace all calls to discover which modules were actually called, then
>>> from this information build a minimal distributable program.
>>>
>>> Cheers
>>>
>>> /Joe
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