[erlang-questions] incude_lib question

[Dan Gudmundsson]

The application name have to be in the path (with the ebin):

So standing in for example exmpp/test you can not use erlc -pa ../ebin
you must use erlc -pa ../../exmpp/ebin

/Dan

ttmrichter@REDACTED wrote:
> Too bad the documentation isn't searchable and is painfully badly 
> indexed, eh Peter?
> 
> To be more helpful, bokner:
> 
> The first link you need to read is 
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/reference_manual/macros.html#7.1. This 
> references the function code:lib_dir(). Hitting the function index nets 
> us http://www.erlang.org/doc/man/code.html#lib_dir-1 for that function. 
> This gives us the explanation that the application must be "located 
> under $OTPROOT/lib or on a directory referred to via the ERL_LIBS 
> environment variable".
> 
> Now further explanation in that same function tells us that the 
> application must be "a regular directory called Name or Name-Vsn in the 
> code path with an ebin subdirectory". So one possibility is that your 
> application doesn't have an ebin subdirectory. If it doesn't, 
> code:lib_dir() won't find it I'm wagering. Since I can't see your setup 
> I can't really guess for certain.
> 
> In case this isn't the cause, let's take a look at 
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/part_frame.html to see if 
> there's any clues. There's a whole section on "included applications" so 
> that looks like it might be a clue there. My eye is drawn toward 
> http://www.erlang.org/doc/design_principles/included_applications.html#8.2 
> where it points out the "included_applications" key in the .app file. 
> Double check that you're actually including the application there, perhaps?
> 
> (Looking in the Armstrong book I'm not seeing anything there that's 
> particularly helpful in answering your question so I think the "any 
> erlang book" isn't exactly a helpful comment either since there's at 
> least one that doesn't.)
> 
> On Jun 29, 2009 8:39pm, Peter Lund <erlang@REDACTED> wrote:
>> Try R13A doc: OTP/doc/R13A/erts-5.7/doc/html/index.html or any erlang 
>> book.
> 
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> 
>> bokner skrev:
> 
> 
>> Why include_lib works with application names for some applications and
> 
>> doesn't for others? For example, I have exmpp application installed in
> 
>> my Erlang lib directory, and include_lib doesn't see headers when I
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>> do:
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>> include_lib("exmpp/include/some_header.hrl"),
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>> while it works for crypto, mnesia, kernel apps etc.?
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>> There must be some packaging option that affects this, but I couldn't
> 
>> find it. Thank you for help.
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