Getting Elixir to run on my OsX (init terminating in do_boot)
June 29, 2015
I hear more and more about Elixir from some people that I really trust and respect. That means checking-out-new-technology-time for Marcus.
Luckily installing Elixir on Os X (Yosemite 10.10, that I’m running) is super simple with Homebrew:
brew update brew install elixir
Or is it …
Not for me as it turns out. I hope you had a better fate. This is my story.
Becasue when that was all done I ran elixir -v
to check my version number and got:
"{"init terminating in do_boot",{undef,[{elixir,start_cli,[],[]},{init,start_it,1,[]},{init,start_em,1,[]}]}}"
In the output from Homebrew I saw just a little warning but nothing that was particularly scary. So I did what every professional programmer does; searched the Internets. And on GitHub I found this issue for Elixir, which sounds exactly like that I was...