Erlang in Mac OSX

download the source package from the erlang website.

http://www.erlang.org/download.html

and unzip it.

$ tar zxvf otp_src_R14B03.tar.gz

$ ./configure -prefix=/usr

$ make

[it will wait a min]

$[sudo make install]

now, you could use erlang!

james$ erl

Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.6.5 [source] [64-bit] [smp:2] [async-threads:0] [kernel-poll:false]


Eshell V5.6.5  (abort with ^G)
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