Re: Old Release Of Erlang On Apple Silicon

IMO, your best bet is to install it from source using a tool like kerl
(https://github.com/kerl/kerl), which will allow you to build it for
arm64.

-a

On Mon, Nov 15, 2021 at 11:28 AM Onorio Catenacci
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> When I attempt to install Erlang 21 on a new Apple Silicon chip I get this message:
>
> onorio.catenacci$ brew install erlang@21
>
> erlang@21: The x86_64 architecture is required for this software.
>
> Error: erlang@21: An unsatisfied requirement failed this build.
>
>
> I found this:
> https://stackoverflow.com/a/67098973/2820
>
> But it doesn't seem to do the trick.  When I attempt to run it I get this message:
>
> onorio.catenacci$ arch -x86_64 brew install erlang@21
>
> Error: Cannot install under Rosetta 2 in ARM default prefix (/opt/homebrew)!
>
> To rerun under ARM use:
>
>     arch -arm64 brew install ...
>
> To install under x86_64, install Homebrew into /usr/local.
>
>
> Has anyone gotten Homebrew/Rosetta working with an older version of Erlang?  I realize it's still pretty new so I'm not expecting it to work turnkey but I was hoping others might have seen this issue and figured out a fix.
>
> I'm looking for stuff on Homebrew and Rosetta as well but it seemed that some of the folks here may have run across this one too so I figured there was no harm in asking.
>
> --
> Onorio
>
>


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