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I recently got excited about functional programming and wanted to learn more and then my friend recommended I check out Elixir. |
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I tried to install it and got stuck for so many hours that I nearly gave up. Nearly. |
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Here's how I pulled it together, if I remember the steps correctly |
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# How it didn't work |
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First, I was so excited that I just jumped on youtube and followed a tutorial from 2017 that started with installing Erlang from their official homepage. |
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That didn't quite work once I tried `brew install elixir` so I got rid of that erlang again and installed the whole thing through homebrew. |
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This continued to give me Segmentation Faults every time I started `erl` or `elixir -v`. |
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# How it worked in the end |
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First off, this [answer](/Library/Apple/usr/bin) on stack exchange was tremendous help. |
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In essence, I installed homebrew two times: |
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- `/usr/local` for macOS Intel |
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- `/opt/homebrew` for macOS ARM (i.e. the M1) |
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Since homebrew now supports the ARM, you should be able to execute the installation command from their homepage basically anywhere BUT with an important difference: you have to do it once with Rosetta enabled for your terminal and once without. (To toggle that, find your terminal-application in the Applications on your Mac, press CMD+i and click "Open using Rosetta") |
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Then create aliases like the following in your respective config, mine was `.zshrc`, yours might be `.bashrc`. Open up that file and copy the following in, save and make sure to run `source .zshrc` afterwards to make the changes available. |
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``` |
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alias ibrew='arch -x86_64 /usr/local/bin/brew' |
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alias mbrew='arch -arm64e /opt/homebrew/bin/brew' |
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``` |
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Add the paths also to your `$PATH`, mine looks like this now: |
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``` |
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/opt/homebrew/bin |
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/opt/homebrew/opt |
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/usr/local/bin |
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/usr/bin |
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/bin |
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/usr/sbin |
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/sbin |
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``` |
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I then opened my terminal __with Rosetta enabled__ and used the `mbrew`-alias to finally install elixir: |
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`mbrew install elixir`. This is the part that I don't actually understand as `mbrew` was supposed to be for the ARM, but then I run the terminal in Intel mode, and this works? Please explain. |
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For the record, here's the output: |
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``` |
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mbrew install elixir |
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==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/erlang/manifests/24.0.3 |
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Already downloaded: /Users/nils/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/027550f618a59746484f459f55e84ef651985d2fb6a069db89de6811bf81f9e2--erlang-24.0.3.bottle_manifest.json |
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==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/erlang/blobs/sha256:8ebaae00022e7bb359df1fac2a45ecb371cb5cc96b69d18f6 |
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Already downloaded: /Users/nils/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/5c53a77440f083d502206706a014e2edb930a1e6c3afdc0d892e4be24b010896--erlang--24.0.3.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz |
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==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/elixir/manifests/1.12.2 |
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Already downloaded: /Users/nils/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/8626a537d9ef8c8557b438f56bafa283c3118c22fd446f8b6eed37833a19a5a7--elixir-1.12.2.bottle_manifest.json |
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==> Downloading https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core/elixir/blobs/sha256:9931199e37b5ed93b73b10cbbea910f735d537d935f7e0609 |
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Already downloaded: /Users/nils/Library/Caches/Homebrew/downloads/edbddd60e0d95dd14a7781aaa07aea59aabc993ba813d73d7b0172b53db17140--elixir--1.12.2.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz |
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==> Installing dependencies for elixir: erlang |
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==> Installing elixir dependency: erlang |
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==> Pouring erlang--24.0.3.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz |
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🍺 /opt/homebrew/Cellar/erlang/24.0.3: 7,619 files, 482.9MB |
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==> Installing elixir |
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==> Pouring elixir--1.12.2.arm64_big_sur.bottle.tar.gz |
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🍺 /opt/homebrew/Cellar/elixir/1.12.2: 434 files, 6.4MB |
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``` |
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``` |
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erl |
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Erlang/OTP 24 [erts-12.0.3] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1] [dtrace] |
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Eshell V12.0.3 (abort with ^G) |
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``` |
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``` |
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elixir -v |
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Erlang/OTP 24 [erts-12.0.3] [source] [64-bit] [smp:8:8] [ds:8:8:10] [async-threads:1] [dtrace] |
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Elixir 1.12.2 (compiled with Erlang/OTP 24) |
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``` |
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--- |
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My hope in sharing this learning is is to help a fellow struggling enthusiast to get started or to receive a comment from a more experienced fellow explaining what caused me so much trouble and maybe advising an easier way forward. |
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