This document describes how to build and install Erlang/OTP-%OTP-REL%. You are advised to read the whole document before attempting to build and install Erlang/OTP. You can find more information about Open Source Erlang/OTP at:
The source code for Erlang/OTP can also be found in a Git repository:
http://github.com/erlang/otp
Erlang/OTP should be possible to build from source on any Unix system, including Mac OS X. This document describes how to native compile Erlang/OTP on Unix. For detailed instructions on how to
-
cross compile Erlang/OTP, see the $ERL_TOP/HOWTO/INSTALL-CROSS.md document.
-
build Erlang/OTP on Windows, see the $ERL_TOP/HOWTO/INSTALL-WIN32.md document.
Binary releases for Windows can be found at http://www.erlang.org/download.html.
Before reading the above mentioned documents you are in any case advised to read this document first, since it covers building Erlang/OTP in general as well as other important information.
At Ericsson we have a "Daily Build and Test" that runs on:
- Solaris 8, 9
- Sparc32
- Sparc64
- Solaris 10
- Sparc32
- Sparc64
- x86
- SuSE Linux/GNU 9.4, 10.1
- x86
- SuSE Linux/GNU 10.0, 10.1, 11.0
- x86
- x86_64
- openSuSE 11.4 (Celadon)
- x86_64 (valgrind)
- Fedora 7
- PowerPC
- Fedora 14
- x86_64
- Gentoo Linux/GNU 1.12.11.1
- x86
- Ubuntu Linux/GNU 7.04, 10.04, 10.10, 11.0
- x86_64
- MontaVista Linux/GNU 4.0.1
- PowerPC
- FreeBSD 8.2
- x86
- OpenBSD 5.0
- x86_64
- Mac OS X 10.5.8 (Leopard), 10.6.0 (Snow Leopard), 10.7.3 (Lion)
- x86
- Windows XP SP3, 2003, Vista, 7
- x86
- Windows 7
- x86_64
We also have the following "Daily Cross Builds":
- SuSE Linux/GNU 10.1 x86 -> SuSE Linux/GNU 10.1 x86_64
- SuSE Linux/GNU 10.1 x86_64 -> Linux/GNU TILEPro64
and the following "Daily Cross Build Tests":
- SuSE Linux/GNU 10.1 x86_64
-
Suse linux 9.1 is shipped with a patched GCC version 3.3.3, having the rpm named
gcc-3.3.3-41
. That version has a serious optimization bug that makes it unusable for building the Erlang emulator. Please upgrade GCC to a newer version before building on Suse 9.1. Suse Linux Enterprise edition 9 (SLES9) hasgcc-3.3.3-43
and is not affected. -
gcc-4.3.0
has a serious optimizer bug. It produces an Erlang emulator that will crash immediately. The bug is supposed to be fixed ingcc-4.3.1
. -
FreeBSD had a bug which caused
kqueue
/poll
/select
to fail to detect that awritev()
on a pipe has been made. This bug should have been fixed in FreeBSD 6.3 and FreeBSD 7.0. NetBSD and DragonFlyBSD probably have or have had the same bug. More information can be found at: -
getcwd()
on Solaris 9 can cause an emulator crash. If you have async-threads enabled you can increase the stack size of the async-threads as a temporary workaround. See the+a
command-line argument in the documentation oferl(1)
. Without async-threads the emulator is not as vulnerable to this bug, but if you hit it without async-threads the only workaround available is to enable async-threads and increase the stack size of the async-threads. Sun has however released patches that fixes the issue:Problem Description: 6448300 large mnttab can cause stack overrun during Solaris 9 getcwd
More information can be found at:
These are the tools you will need in order to unpack and build Erlang/OTP.
- GNU unzip, or a modern uncompress.
- A TAR program that understands the GNU TAR format for long filenames (such as GNU TAR).
- GNU
make
gcc
-- GNU C compiler- Perl 5
- GNU
m4
-- If HiPE (native code) support is enabled. HiPE can be disabled using--disable-hipe
ncurses
,termcap
, ortermlib
-- The development headers and libraries are needed, often known asncurses-devel
. Use--without-termcap
to build without any of these libraries. Note that in this case only the old shell (without any line editing) can be used.- OpenSSL -- Optional, but needed for building the Erlang/OTP applications
ssl
andcrypto
. You need the "development package" of OpenSSL, i.e. including the header files. For building the applicationssl
the OpenSSL binary command programopenssl
is also needed. At least version 0.9.8 of OpenSSL is required. Can be downloaded from http://www.openssl.org. - Sun Java jdk-1.5.0 or higher -- Optional but needed for building the
Erlang/OTP application
jinterface
and parts ofic
andorber
. Can be downloaded from http://java.sun.com. We have also tested IBM's JDK 1.5.0. - X Windows -- Optional, but development headers and libraries are needed
to build the Erlang/OTP application
gs
on Unix/Linux. sed
-- There seem to be some problems with some of thesed
version on Solaris. Make sure/bin/sed
or/usr/bin/sed
is used on the Solaris platform.flex
-- Optional, headers and libraries are needed to build theflex
scanner for themegaco
application on Unix/Linux.
xsltproc
-- XSLT processor. A tool for applying XSLT stylesheets to XML documents. Can be downloaded from http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/xsltproc2.html.fop
-- Apache FOP print formatter (requires Java). Can be downloaded from http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop.
- GNU
autoconf
of at least version 2.59. Note thatautoconf
is not needed when building an unmodified version of the released source.
- An
install
program that can take multiple file names.
The following instructions are for building the released source tar ball.
The variable $ERL_TOP
will be mentioned a lot of times. It refers to
the top directory in the source tree. More information about $ERL_TOP
can be found in the make and $ERL_TOP section below. If you are
building in git you probably want to take a look at the Building in Git
section below before proceeding.
Step 1: Start by unpacking the Erlang/OTP distribution file with your GNU compatible TAR program.
$ gunzip -c otp_src_%OTP-REL%.tar.gz | tar xf -
alternatively:
$ zcat otp_src_%OTP-REL%.tar.gz | tar xf -
Step 2: Now cd into the base directory ($ERL_TOP
).
$ cd otp_src_%OTP-REL%
Step 3: On some platforms Perl may behave strangely if certain locales are set, so optionally you may need to set the LANG variable:
# Bourne shell
$ LANG=C; export LANG
or
# C-Shell
$ setenv LANG C
Step 4: Run the following commands to configure the build:
$ ./configure [ options ]
By default, Erlang/OTP will be installed in /usr/local/{bin,lib/erlang}
.
To instead install in <BaseDir>/{bin,lib/erlang}
, use the
--prefix=<BaseDir>
option.
If you upgraded the source with some patch you may need to clean up
from previous builds before the new build. Before doing a make clean
,
be sure to read the Pre-built Source Release section below.
Step 5: Build the Erlang/OTP package.
$ make
Step 6: Install then Erlang/OTP package
$ make install
Let us go through them in some detail.
Step 4 runs a configuration script created by the GNU autoconf utility, which checks for system specific features and then creates a number of makefiles.
The configure script allows you to customize a number of parameters;
type ./configure --help
or ./configure --help=recursive
for details.
./configure --help=recursive
will give help for all configure
scripts in
all applications.
One of the things you can specify is where Erlang/OTP should be installed. By
default Erlang/OTP will be installed in /usr/local/{bin,lib/erlang}
.
To keep the same structure but install in a different place, <Dir>
say,
use the --prefix
argument like this: ./configure --prefix=<Dir>
.
Some of the available configure
options are:
--prefix=PATH
- Specify installation prefix.--{enable,disable}-threads
- Thread support (enabled by default if possible)--{enable,disable}-smp-support
- SMP support (enabled by default if possible)--{enable,disable}-kernel-poll
- Kernel poll support (enabled by default if possible)--{enable,disable}-hipe
- HiPE support (enabled by default on supported platforms)--enable-darwin-universal
- Build universal binaries on darwin i386.--enable-darwin-64bit
- Build 64-bit binaries on darwin--enable-m64-build
- Build 64-bit binaries using the-m64
flag to(g)cc
--enable-m32-build
- Build 32-bit binaries using the-m32
flag to(g)cc
--{with,without}-termcap
- termcap (without implies that only the old Erlang shell can be used)--with-javac=JAVAC
- Specify Java compiler to use--{with,without}-javac
- Java compiler (without implies that thejinterface
application won't be built)--{enable,disable}-dynamic-ssl-lib
- Dynamic OpenSSL libraries--{enable,disable}-shared-zlib
- Shared zlib library--with-ssl=PATH
- Specify location of OpenSSL include and lib--{with,without}-ssl
- OpenSSL (without implies that thecrypto
,ssh
, andssl
won't be built)--with-libatomic_ops=PATH
- Use thelibatomic_ops
library for atomic memory accesses. Ifconfigure
should inform you about no native atomic implementation available, you typically want to try using thelibatomic_ops
library. It can be downloaded from http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/atomic_ops/.--disable-smp-require-native-atomics
- By defaultconfigure
will fail if an SMP runtime system is about to be built, and no implementation for native atomic memory accesses can be found. If this happens, you are encouraged to find a native atomic implementation that can be used, e.g., usinglibatomic_ops
, but by passing--disable-smp-require-native-atomics
you can build using a fallback implementation based on mutexes or spinlocks. Performance of the SMP runtime system will however suffer immensely without an implementation for native atomic memory accesses.--without-$app
- By default all applications in Erlang/OTP will be included in a release. If this is not wanted it is possible to specify that Erlang/OTP should be compiled without that applications, i.e.--without-wx
. There is no automatic dependency handling inbetween applications. So if you disable an application that another depends on, you also have to disable the dependant application.
If you or your system has special requirements please read the Makefile
for
additional configuration information.
Step 5 builds the Erlang/OTP system. On a fast computer, this will take about
5 minutes. After completion of this step, you should have a working
Erlang/OTP system which you can try by typing bin/erl
. This should start
up Erlang/OTP and give you a prompt:
$ bin/erl
Erlang %OTP-REL% (erts-%ERTS-VSN%) [source] [smp:4:4] [rq:4] [async-threads:0] [kernel-poll:false]
Eshell V%ERTS-VSN% (abort with ^G)
1> _
Step 6 is optional. It installs Erlang/OTP at a standardized location (if you change your mind about where you wish to install you can rerun step 4, without having to do step 5 again).
-
Staged install using DESTDIR. You can perform the install phase in a temporary directory and later move the installation into its correct location by use of the
DESTDIR
variable:$ make DESTDIR=<tmp install dir> install
The installation will be created in a location prefixed by
$DESTDIR
. It can, however, not be run from there. It needs to be moved into the correct location before it can be run. IfDESTDIR
have not been set butINSTALL_PREFIX
has been set,DESTDIR
will be set toINSTALL_PREFIX
. Note thatINSTALL_PREFIX
in pre R13B04 was buggy and behaved asEXTRA_PREFIX
(see below). There are lots of areas of use for an installation procedure usingDESTDIR
, e.g. when creating a package, cross compiling, etc. Here is an example where the installation should be located under/opt/local
:$ ./configure --prefix=/opt/local $ make $ make DESTDIR=/tmp/erlang-build install $ cd /tmp/erlang-build/opt/local $ # gnu-tar is used in this example $ tar -zcf /home/me/my-erlang-build.tgz * $ su - Password: ***** $ cd /opt/local $ tar -zxf /home/me/my-erlang-build.tgz
-
Install using the
release
target. Instead of doingmake install
you can create the installation in whatever directory you like using therelease
target and run theInstall
script yourself.RELEASE_ROOT
is used for specifying the directory where the installation should be created. This is what by default ends up under/usr/local/lib/erlang
if you do the install usingmake install
. All installation paths provided in theconfigure
phase are ignored, as well asDESTDIR
, andINSTALL_PREFIX
. If you want links from a specificbin
directory to the installation you have to set those up yourself. An example where Erlang/OTP should be located at/home/me/OTP
:$ ./configure $ make $ make RELEASE_ROOT=/home/me/OTP release $ cd /home/me/OTP $ ./Install -minimal /home/me/OTP $ mkdir -p /home/me/bin $ cd /home/me/bin $ ln -s /home/me/OTP/bin/erl erl $ ln -s /home/me/OTP/bin/erlc erlc $ ln -s /home/me/OTP/bin/escript escript ...
The
Install
script should currently be invoked as follows in the directory where it resides (the top directory):$ ./Install [-cross] [-minimal|-sasl] <ERL_ROOT>
where:
-minimal
Creates an installation that starts up a minimal amount of applications, i.e., onlykernel
andstdlib
are started. The minimal system is normally enough, and is whatmake install
uses.-sasl
Creates an installation that also starts up thesasl
application.-cross
For cross compilation. Informs the install script that it is run on the build machine.<ERL_ROOT>
- The absolute path to the Erlang installation to use at run time. This is often the same as the current working directory, but does not have to be. It can follow any other path through the file system to the same directory.
If neither
-minimal
, nor-sasl
is passed as argument you will be prompted. -
Test install using
EXTRA_PREFIX
. The content of theEXTRA_PREFIX
variable will prefix all installation paths when doingmake install
. Note thatEXTRA_PREFIX
is similar toDESTDIR
, but it does not have the same effect asDESTDIR
. The installation can and have to be run from the location specified byEXTRA_PREFIX
. That is, it can be useful if you want to try the system out, running test suites, etc, before doing the real install withoutEXTRA_PREFIX
.
When doing make install
and the default installation prefix is used,
relative symbolic links will be created from /usr/local/bin
to all public
Erlang/OTP executables in /usr/local/lib/erlang/bin
. The installation phase
will try to create relative symbolic links as long as --bindir
and the
Erlang bin directory, located under --libdir
, both have --exec-prefix
as
prefix. Where --exec-prefix
defaults to --prefix
. --prefix
,
--exec-prefix
, --bindir
, and --libdir
are all arguments that can be
passed to configure
. One can force relative, or absolute links by passing
BINDIR_SYMLINKS=relative|absolute
as arguments to make
during the install
phase. Note that such a request might cause a failure if the request cannot
be satisfied.
The source release is delivered with a lot of platform independent
build results already pre-built. If you want to remove these pre-built
files, invoke ./otp_build remove_prebuilt_files
from the $ERL_TOP
directory. After you have done this, you can build exactly the same way
as before, but the build process will take a much longer time.
WARNING: Doing
make clean
in an arbitrary directory of the source tree, may remove files needed for bootstrapping the build.Doing
./otp_build save_bootstrap
from the$ERL_TOP
directory before doingmake clean
will ensure that it will be possible to build after doingmake clean
../otp_build save_bootstrap
will be invoked automatically whenmake
is invoked from$ERL_TOP
with either theclean
target, or the default target. It is also automatically invoked if./otp_build remove_prebuilt_files
is invoked.
When building in a Git working directory you also have to have a GNU autoconf
of at least version 2.59 on your system, because you need to generate the
configure
scripts before you can start building.
The configure
scripts are generated by invoking ./otp_build autoconf
in
the $ERL_TOP
directory. The configure
scripts also have to be regenerated
when a configure.in
or aclocal.m4
file has been modified. Note that when
checking out a branch a configure.in
or aclocal.m4
file may change
content, and you may therefore have to regenerate the configure
scripts
when checking out a branch. Regenerated configure
scripts imply that you
have to run configure
and build again.
NOTE: Running
./otp_build autoconf
is not needed when building an unmodified version of the released source.
Other useful information can be found at our github wiki: http://wiki.github.com/erlang/otp
All the makefiles in the entire directory tree use the environment
variable ERL_TOP
to find the absolute path of the installation. The
configure
script will figure this out and set it in the top level
Makefile (which, when building, it will pass on). However, when
developing it is sometimes convenient to be able to run make in a
subdirectory. To do this you must set the ERL_TOP
variable
before you run make.
For example, assume your GNU make program is called make
and you
want to rebuild the application STDLIB
, then you could do:
$ cd lib/stdlib; env ERL_TOP=<Dir> make
where <Dir>
would be what you find ERL_TOP
is set to in the top level
Makefile.
$ cd $ERL_TOP
If you have just built Erlang/OTP in the current source tree, you have
already ran configure
and do not need to do this again; otherwise, run
configure
.
$ ./configure [Configure Args]
When building the documentation you need a full Erlang/OTP-%OTP-REL% system in
the $PATH
.
$ export PATH=<Erlang/OTP-%OTP-REL% bin dir>:$PATH # Assuming bash/sh
Build the documentation.
$ make docs
The documentation can be installed either using the install-docs
target,
or using the release_docs
target.
-
If you have installed Erlang/OTP using the
install
target, install the documentation using theinstall-docs
target. Install locations determined byconfigure
will be used.$DESTDIR
can be used the same way as when doingmake install
.$ make install-docs
-
If you have installed Erlang/OTP using the
release
target, install the documentation using therelease_docs
target. You typically want to use the sameRELEASE_ROOT
as when invokingmake release
.$ make release_docs RELEASE_ROOT=<release dir>
We have sometimes experienced problems with Sun's java
running out of
memory when running fop
. Increasing the amount of memory available
as follows has in our case solved the problem.
$ export FOP_OPTS="-Xmx<Installed amount of RAM in MB>m"
More information can be found at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/running.html#memory.
Pre-formatted html documentation and man pages can be downloaded at http://www.erlang.org/download.html.
For some graphical tools to find the on-line help you have to install the HTML documentation on top of the installed OTP applications, i.e.
$ cd <ReleaseDir>
$ gunzip -c otp_html_%OTP-REL%.tar.gz | tar xf -
For erl -man <page>
to work the Unix manual pages have to be
installed in the same way, i.e.
$ cd <ReleaseDir>
$ gunzip -c otp_man_%OTP-REL%.tar.gz | tar xf -
Where <ReleaseDir>
is
<PrefixDir>/lib/erlang
if you have installed Erlang/OTP usingmake install
.$DESTDIR<PrefixDir>/lib/erlang
if you have installed Erlang/OTP usingmake install DESTDIR=<TmpInstallDir>
.RELEASE_ROOT
if you have installed usingmake release RELEASE_ROOT=<ReleaseDir>
.
An emulator with SMP support will be built by default on most platforms if a usable POSIX thread library or native Windows threads is found.
You can force building of an SMP emulator, by using
./configure --enable-smp-support
. However, if configure does not
automatically enable SMP support, the build is very likely to fail.
Use ./configure --disable-smp-support
if you for some reason do not
want to have the emulator with SMP support built.
If SMP support is enabled, support for threaded I/O will also be turned on (also in the emulator without SMP support).
The erl
command will automatically start the SMP emulator if the
computer has more than one logical processor. You can force a start
of the emulator with SMP support by passing -smp enable
as
command line arguments to erl, and you can force a start of the
emulator without SMP support by passing -smp disable
.
GS now Tcl/Tk 8.4. It will be searched for when starting GS.
HiPE supports the following system configurations:
-
x86: All 32-bit and 64-bit mode processors should work.
-
Linux: Fedora Core is supported. Both 32-bit and 64-bit modes are supported.
NPTL glibc is strongly preferred, or a LinuxThreads glibc configured for "floating stacks". Old non-floating stacks glibcs have a fundamental problem that makes HiPE support and threads support mutually exclusive.
-
Solaris: Solaris 10 (32-bit and 64-bit) and 9 (32-bit) are supported. The build requires a version of the GNU C compiler (gcc) that has been configured to use the GNU assembler (gas). Sun's x86 assembler is emphatically not supported.
-
FreeBSD: FreeBSD 6.1 and 6.2 in 32-bit and 64-bit modes should work.
-
MacOSX/Darwin: Darwin 9.8.0 in 32-bit mode should work.
-
-
PowerPC: All 32-bit 6xx/7xx(G3)/74xx(G4) processors should work. 32-bit mode on 970 (G5) and POWER5 processors should work.
- Linux (Yellow Dog) and Mac OSX 10.4 are supported.
-
SPARC: All UltraSPARC processors running 32-bit user code should work.
-
Solaris 9 is supported. The build requires a
gcc
that has been configured to use Sun's assembler and linker. Using the GNU assembler but Sun's linker has been known to cause problems. -
Linux (Aurora) is supported.
-
-
ARM: ARMv5TE (i.e. XScale) processors should work. Both big-endian and little-endian modes are supported.
- Linux is supported.
HiPE is automatically enabled on the following systems:
- x86 in 32-bit mode: Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD
- x86 in 64-bit mode: Linux, Solaris, FreeBSD
- PowerPC: Linux, MacOSX
- SPARC: Linux
- ARM: Linux
On other supported systems you need to ./configure --enable-hipe
.
If you are running on a platform supporting HiPE and if you have not disabled HiPE, you can compile a module into native code like this from the Erlang shell:
1> c(Module, native).
or
1> c(Module, [native|OtherOptions]).
Using the erlc program, write like this:
$ erlc +native Module.erl
The native code will be placed into the beam file and automatically loaded when the beam file is loaded.
To add hipe options, write like this from the Erlang shell:
1> c(Module, [native,{hipe,HipeOptions}|MoreOptions]).
Use hipe:help_options/0
to print out the available options.
1> hipe:help_options().
Make sure that the command hostname
returns a valid fully qualified host
name (this is configured in /etc/hostconfig
).
If you develop linked-in drivers (shared library) you need to link using
gcc
and the flags -bundle -flat_namespace -undefined suppress
. You also
include -fno-common
in CFLAGS
when compiling. Use .so
as the library
suffix.
Use the --enable-darwin-64bit
configure flag to build a 64-bit
binaries on Mac OS X.
Starting with Xcode 4.2, Apple no longer includes a "real" gcc
compiler (not based on the LLVM). Building with llvm-gcc
or clang
will work, but the performance of the Erlang run-time system will not
be the best possible.
Note that if you have gcc-4.2
installed and included in PATH
(from a previous version of Xcode), configure
will automatically
make sure that gcc-4.2
will be used to compile beam_emu.c
(the source file most in need of gcc
).
If you don't have gcc-4.2.
and want to build a run-time system with
the best possible performance, do like this:
Install Xcode from the AppStore if it is not already installed.
If you have Xcode 4.3, or later, you will also need to download "Command Line Tools" via the Downloads preference pane in Xcode.
Some tools may still be lacking or out-of-date, we recommend using Homebrew or Macports to update those tools.
Install MacPorts (http://www.macports.org/). Then:
$ sudo port selfupdate
$ sudo port install gcc45 +universal
If you want to build the wx
application, you will need to get wxWidgets-2.9.4 (or later)
(wxWidgets-2.9.4.tar.bz2
from http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/2.9.4/)
or get it from github:
$ git clone [email protected]:wxWidgets/wxWidgets.git
Be aware that the wxWidgets-2.9 branch is a development branch of wxWidgets and the MacOsX port still lags behind the other ports.
Configure and build wxMac:
$ ./configure --with-cocoa --prefix=/usr/local
$ make
$ sudo make install
$ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
Check that you got the correct wx-config
$ which wx-config
Build Erlang with the MacPorts GCC as the main compiler (using clang
for the Objective-C Cocoa code in the wx
application):
$ export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
$ cd $ERL_TOP
$ CC=/opt/local/bin/gcc-mp-4.5 CXX=/opt/local/bin/g++-mp-4.5 ./configure --enable-darwin-64bit
$ make
$ sudo make install
After completing all the normal building steps described above a debug
enabled runtime system can be built. To do this you have to change
directory to $ERL_TOP/erts/emulator
.
In this directory execute:
$ make debug FLAVOR=$FLAVOR
where $FLAVOR
is either plain
or smp
. The flavor options will
produce a beam.debug and beam.smp.debug executable respectively. The
files are installed along side with the normal (opt) versions beam.smp
and beam
.
To start the debug enabled runtime system execute:
$ $ERL_TOP/bin/cerl -debug
The debug enabled runtime system features lock violation checking, assert checking and various sanity checks to help a developer ensure correctness. Some of these features can be enabled on a normal beam using appropriate configure options.
There are other types of runtime systems that can be built as well using the similar steps just described.
$ make $TYPE FLAVOR=$FLAVOR
where $TYPE
is opt
, gcov
, gprof
, debug
, valgrind
, or lcnt
.
These different beam types are useful for debugging and profiling
purposes.
Authors are mostly listed in the application's AUTHORS
files,
that is $ERL_TOP/lib/*/AUTHORS
and $ERL_TOP/erts/AUTHORS
,
not in the individual source files.
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Before modifying this document you need to have a look at the $ERL_TOP/HOWTO/MARKDOWN.md document.