Static Erlang

[Grzegorz Junka]

Hi Leonard,

I was hoping I could achieve that just by copying the folder with the 
Erlang release around. I can use the package infrastructure but it's 
more work, i.e. preparing the package definition. But yeah, this could 
be a solution.

Thanks

Grzegorz


On 05/08/2020 01:11, Leonard B wrote:
> Hi Grzegorz,
>
> How about flipping the script.
>
> I'm not releasing on FreeBSD, but Debian.
>
> What we do do is build a release of the app/project on the target 
> version. The release includes Erlang.
>
> We then build a Deb which defines the dependencies for that build/release.
>
> In short, Erlang is not a dependency since it's built and included in 
> the package. The dependancies used to build the release, which are 
> standard packages on the target platform are dependencies of my Deb.
>
> Maybe that makes sense?
>
> Kind regards,
> Leonard
>
> On Tue, Aug 4, 2020, 20:41 Grzegorz Junka <list1@REDACTED 
> <mailto:list1@REDACTED>> wrote:
>
>     Thanks Yao. I have a BSD-based system (FreeBSD) with just the base
>     system installed. I can install additional packages but my aim is
>     to be
>     able to distribute the release to any similar system without
>     having to
>     install Erlang as a dependency on each one.
>
>     GrzegorzJ
>
>
>     On 05/08/2020 00:31, Yao Bao wrote:
>     > Hello,
>     >
>     > I am not sure whether running a single standalone program is
>     feasible nowadays, but some points might be helpful to think about it.
>     >
>     > The first one comes from the Appendix 3 (A Simple Execution
>     Environment) from joe's book 'Programming Erlang, Second Edition',
>     but this does not answer the 'linking statically' question.
>     >
>     > The second one depends on what you already have with your machine.
>     > - If you have an Unix-like operating system as the basis, which
>     means you have an usable kernel at hand, you need to build the
>     standalone program into a format which the kernel can understand
>     and can run it directly (without dynamic linking libraries).
>     > - If you do not have an operating system as the basis, you have
>     to build the standalone program into a format which the machine
>     can understand directly, in this case, machine code.
>     > - If the Erlang VM can be recognized as an application operating
>     system, I think the BEAM might run Erlang applications directly.
>     >
>     > Cheers,
>     > Yao
>     >
>     >> 在 2020年8月3日，07:12，Grzegorz Junka <list1@REDACTED
>     <mailto:list1@REDACTED>> 写道：
>     >>
>     >> Is it possible to compile Erlang Beam statically so that when I
>     am doing a release it doesn't require any dynamically loaded
>     libraries on the host to which the release is being deployed? I
>     was trying the various configure options but the compilation was
>     failing (for various reasons, mostly missing or conflicting
>     function signatures). I could try again and post exact errors but
>     would prefer to start with a tried and tested set of options.
>     >>
>     >> GrzegorzJ
>     >>
>     >
>
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