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erlang.mk now has built-in support for relx

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Loïc Hoguin 2013-10-14 16:05:19 +02:00
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guide/getting_started.md
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@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ hello_erlang/
hello_erlang_sup.beam
hello_handler.beam
_rel/
relx
```
As you can probably guess, the `.app.src` file end up becoming
@ -271,14 +272,11 @@ $ make
```
That's not all however, as we want to create a working release.
For that purpose we will need `relx`. You can download it directly
[from Github](https://github.com/erlware/relx). After downloading
it, you will need to build it using `make`, which should give
you a `relx` executable that you can then put in your `$PATH`.
You only need to do this once.
For that purpose, we need to create a `relx.config` file. When
this file exists, `erlang.mk` will automatically download `relx`
and build the release when you type `make`.
We are almost ready to build the release. All that's left is
the `relx.config` file! In it, we only need to tell `relx` that
In the `relx.config` file, we only need to tell `relx` that
we want the release to include the `hello_erlang` application,
and that we want an extended start script for convenience.
`relx` will figure out which other applications are required
@ -295,7 +293,7 @@ version, and the applications to be included.
We can now build and start the release.
``` bash
$ relx
$ make
$ ./_rel/bin/hello_erlang console
```