Category Archives: erlang

Building CouchDb on Mac OS X

September 21, 2007 – 5:50 pm UTC

I, like Sam, *really* want to play with CouchDb. But I’m a MacOSX box that I barely understand after 3 months of ownership.

Install MacPorts and run:

sudo port install erlang icu subversion

Add these two lines to your .bash_profile (or .profile if you’re running tcsh).

export ERLANG_BIN_DIR=/opt/local/bin/ export ERLANG_INCLUDE_DIR=/opt/local/lib/erlang/usr/include/

Run those two commands in your current shell [...]

By Jeff | Also posted in code, ruby | Comments (2)

erl_interface is Deprecated and I Hate the Erlang Docs

September 2, 2007 – 9:21 am UTC

I’ve been learning Erlang in fits and starts for a few months now, and trying to play with the C interface to it. Unfortunately, it wasn’t until tonight that I learned that the best documented interface, erl_interface, is deprecated in favor of ei. (That link is not all of the ei documentation. [...]

By Jeff | Also posted in code | Comments (0)