#210 on MacOS
Installing Elixir on MacOS
Notes
Trying two options for running Elixir on MacOS - brew and docker
Using Homebrew
Installing with brew and the Elixir Homebrew Fomula
$ brew update
$ brew install elixir
$ brew info elixir
elixir: stable 1.10.0 (bottled), HEAD
Functional metaprogramming aware language built on Erlang VM
https://elixir-lang.org/
/usr/local/Cellar/elixir/1.10.0 (430 files, 5.9MB) *
Poured from bottle on 2020-02-01 at 14:34:05
From: https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew-core/blob/master/Formula/elixir.rb
==> Dependencies
Required: erlang ✔
==> Options
--HEAD
Install HEAD version
==> Analytics
install: 7,722 (30 days), 24,418 (90 days), 101,881 (365 days)
install-on-request: 7,290 (30 days), 22,832 (90 days), 94,499 (365 days)
build-error: 0 (30 days)
Installed version:
$ elixir --version
Erlang/OTP 22 [erts-10.6.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1] [hipe] [dtrace]
Elixir 1.10.0 (compiled with Erlang/OTP 22)
Running the REPL:
$ iex
Erlang/OTP 22 [erts-10.6.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1] [hipe] [dtrace]
Interactive Elixir (1.10.0) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
iex(1)> System.version
"1.10.0"
iex(2)> :c.uptime
34 seconds
:ok
iex(3)>
Running scripts:
$ elixir demo.exs
System.version: 1.10.0
Using Docker
Official Elixir Docker images are published on Docker Hub
Running interactive:
$ docker run -it --rm elixir
Unable to find image 'elixir:latest' locally
latest: Pulling from library/elixir
...
Digest: sha256:d3958dd5ba502b94b467699c595762a4bf2059eabb5f6b68ef4c6b6063362db5
Status: Downloaded newer image for elixir:latest
Erlang/OTP 22 [erts-10.6.2] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [ds:4:4:10] [async-threads:1] [hipe]
Interactive Elixir (1.10.0) - press Ctrl+C to exit (type h() ENTER for help)
iex(1)> System.version
"1.10.0"
iex(2)> :c.uptime
38 seconds
:ok
iex(3)>
Run a single Elixir exs script:
this command maps the current directoty to /usr/src/myapp in the container and sets this as the working directory
to run the names script:
$ docker run -it --rm --name elixir-lckdemo -v "$PWD":/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp elixir elixir demo.exs
System.version: 1.10.0