[erlang-questions] sinan build fails: internal error in beam_asm

[Thomas Brian]

Thanks, actually I already saw that documentation and knew about
application:start(). I was looking for a simpler way to do that, because
spawning a shell and typing that everytime is rather tedious.
Also, my application -- as I would guess most erlang apps -- is a server, so
having to spawn a shell is not very practical as I need to logout after I
started the application.

After some extensive search, I found that I could start my app with :
erl -pa _build/development/apps/foo-0.1.0/ebin/ -boot
_build/development/releases/0.1.0.0/testapp
It seems weird to me that sinan does not provide a quick command such as
"sinan run" to start the app. Moreover I couldn't find this command (erl -pa
... -boot ...) in any tutorial I read. My assumption was that this was a
really basic task most people would need. Am I wrong in guessing that?


Besides, sinan build still spits this cryptic message in my face on my
development machine (Mac OS 10.5.6). I couldn't find anything interesting on
google. I was able to get sinan to work on Ubuntu, but I'd much rather have
it on my main OS.


On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 3:17 PM, Hynek Vychodil <vychodil.hynek@REDACTED>wrote:

> May be this should be helpful:
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/part_frame.html
> Starting and Stopping Applications:
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/applications.html#7.7
>
> 2009/2/6 Thomas Brian <taum.xd@REDACTED>
>
>> Hi,
>> I'm trying to get a little bit more familiar with Erlang, and so far have
>> only done the very basics: playing with the shell, writing a basic network
>> server with gen_tcp and gen_server, etc.
>>
>> I am now interested in Sinan to help me build a bigger app. I started with
>> sinan gen which builds what looks like a sensible template to me. But sinan
>> build fails to compile anything :
>>
>> $ sinan build
>> [build] start
>> [build] Building
>> /Users/Taum/Documents/Erlang/testapp/lib/foo/src/foo_sup.erl
>> [build]
>> /Users/Taum/Documents/Erlang/testapp/lib/foo/src/foo_sup.erl:none:error:internal
>> error in beam_asm;
>> crash reason: {{badmatch,{error,enoent}},
>>                [{filename,absname,1},
>>                 {compile,beam_asm,1},
>>                 {compile,'-internal_comp/4-anonymous-1-',2},
>>                 {compile,fold_comp,3},
>>                 {compile,internal_comp,4},
>>                 {compile,internal,3}]}
>>
>>
>> On a side note, I'm also having a very hard time finding basic
>> documentation about how to manage an app in Erlang/OTP: how to get started,
>> run it, etc. Are there any good ressources out there I might have overlooked
>> ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Thomas
>>
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