Before diving into architecture, coding, descriptions and other things related to distributed computing over the coming months. It helps to become familiar with a language like Erlang. I’m going to dive immediately into getting Erlang up and running before any theory, description or otherwise, so following the most direct installation…
Installing Erlang
This is easy on OS-X. Pending of course you have the XCode and Developer Tools installed.
curl -O http://erlang.org/download/otp_src_R15B01.tar.gz
tar zxvf otp_src_R15B01.tar.gz
cd otp_src_R15B01
Then compile the latest XCode and tools you can use the LLVM Compiler.
CFLAGS=-O0 ./configure --disable-hipe --enable-smp-support --enable-threads \
--enable-kernel-poll --enable-darwin-64bit
make
sudo make install
For more information on building Erlang you can also check out the Erlang Organization Site. It’s that simple, so now that it is up and running you should be able to check that all is right with the install by pulling a version.
erl -version
In my follow up blog entry I’m going to take you through the Rebar Riak Core Templates. This will get you up and running with an Erlang Application. This application can then be used either as a stand alone Erlang App for whatever you want to build with it or as a great starting point to build against Riak.
