Installing Erlang & Elixir on M1 Macs

phathdt — Thu, 09 Dec 2021 16:59:26 +0000

This week I have a new macbook pro M1, an amazing computer. After several times install erlang and elixir with but dont have any luck. Then I have a solution is install erlang by brew, then reshim to asdf, this solution was suggested by this comment on GitHub

I assume you have installed asdf already, but here is the full installation command I use

brew install asdf autoconf wxmac openssl@1.1 fop coreutils automake libyaml readline libxslt libtool unixodbc unzip curl

Please note that you should install and using openssl@1.1 because Erlang doesn't support openssl 3 yet. If you already install the latest version, please try unlink and link version openssl@1.1

brew unlink openssl@3 
brew link openssl@1.1

Next is add plugin erlang asdf

asdf plugin add erlang https://github.com/asdf-vm/asdf-erlang.git

Now you are ready to install Erlang 24 and Elixir 1.12.3 using brew and reshim to asdf

brew install erlang@24 
cp -r /opt/homebrew/opt/erlang@24/lib/erlang ~/.asdf/installs/erlang/24.1.7
asdf reshim erlang 24.1.7
asdf global erlang 24.1.7 
asdf install elixir 1.12.3-otp-24
asdf global elixir 1.12.3-otp-24

to install another version ( 23 for me )

brew unlink erlang@24 
brew install erlang@23 
cp -r /opt/homebrew/opt/erlang@23/lib/erlang ~/.asdf/installs/erlang/23.3.4.9
asdf reshim erlang 23.3.4.9
asdf global erlang 23.3.4.9 
asdf install elixir 1.10.4-otp-23
asdf global elixir 1.10.4-otp-23

Please remember switch version erlang before install elixir

after these step, you can use asdf to switch version erlang instead of using brew

PS: you could check detail version erlang install brew at this
PS: you could try update to Mac Monterey, it will fix some issue with rosetta

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Installing Erlang & Elixir on M1 Macs