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<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook"
xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
xml:id="sec-beam">
<title>Beam Languages (Erlang & Elixir)</title>
<section xml:id="beam-introduction">
<title>Introduction</title>
<para>
In this document and related Nix expressions we use the term
<emphasis>Beam</emphasis> to describe the environment. Beam is
the name of the Erlang Virtial Machine and, as far as we know,
from a packaging perspective all languages that run on Beam are
interchangable. The things that do change, like the build
system, are transperant to the users of the package. So we make
no distinction.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="build-tools">
<title>Build Tools</title>
<section xml:id="build-tools-rebar3">
<title>Rebar3</title>
<para>
By default Rebar3 wants to manage it's own dependencies. In the
normal non-Nix, this is perfectly acceptable. In the Nix world it
is not. To support this we have created two versions of rebar3,
<literal>rebar3</literal> and <literal>rebar3-open</literal>. The
<literal>rebar3</literal> version has been patched to remove the
ability to download anything from it. If you are not running it a
nix-shell or a nix-build then its probably not going to work for
you. <literal>rebar3-open</literal> is the normal, un-modified
rebar3. It should work exactly as would any other version of
rebar3. Any Erlang package should rely on
<literal>rebar3</literal> and thats really what you should be
using too.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="build-tools-other">
<title>Mix & Erlang.mk</title>
<para>
Both Mix and Erlang.mk work exactly as you would expect. There
is a bootstrap process that needs to be run for both of
them. However, that is supported by the
<literal>buildMix</literal> and <literal>buildErlangMk</literal> derivations.
</para>
</section>
</section>
<section xml:id="how-to-install-beam-packages">
<title>How to install Beam packages</title>
<para>
Beam packages are not registered in the top level simply because
they are not relevant to the vast majority of Nix users. They are
installable using the <literal>beamPackages</literal> attribute
set.
You can list the avialable packages in the
<literal>beamPackages</literal> with the following command:
</para>
<programlisting>
$ nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -qaP -A beamPackages
beamPackages.esqlite esqlite-0.2.1
beamPackages.goldrush goldrush-0.1.7
beamPackages.ibrowse ibrowse-4.2.2
beamPackages.jiffy jiffy-0.14.5
beamPackages.lager lager-3.0.2
beamPackages.meck meck-0.8.3
beamPackages.rebar3-pc pc-1.1.0
</programlisting>
<para>
To install any of those packages into your profile, refer to them by
their attribute path (first column):
</para>
<programlisting>
$ nix-env -f "<nixpkgs>" -iA beamPackages.ibrowse
</programlisting>
<para>
The attribute path of any Beam packages corresponds to the name
of that particular package in Hex or its OTP Application/Release name.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="packaging-beam-applications">
<title>Packaging Beam Applications</title>
<section xml:id="packaging-erlang-applications">
<title>Erlang Applications</title>
<section xml:id="rebar3-packages">
<title>Rebar3 Packages</title>
<para>
There is a Nix functional called
<literal>buildRebar3</literal>. We use this function to make a
derivation that understands how to build the rebar3 project. For
example, the epression we use to build the <link
xlink:href="https://github.com/erlang-nix/hex2nix">hex2nix</link>
project follows.
</para>
<programlisting>
{stdenv, fetchFromGitHub, buildRebar3, ibrowse, jsx, erlware_commons }:
buildRebar3 rec {
name = "hex2nix";
version = "0.0.1";
src = fetchFromGitHub {
owner = "ericbmerritt";
repo = "hex2nix";
rev = "${version}";
sha256 = "1w7xjidz1l5yjmhlplfx7kphmnpvqm67w99hd2m7kdixwdxq0zqg";
};
beamDeps = [ ibrowse jsx erlware_commons ];
}
</programlisting>
<para>
The only visible difference between this derivation and
something like <literal>stdenv.mkDerivation</literal> is that we
have added <literal>erlangDeps</literal> to the derivation. If
you add your Beam dependencies here they will be correctly
handled by the system.
</para>
<para>
If your package needs to compile native code via Rebar's port
compilation mechenism. You should add <literal>compilePort =
true;</literal> to the derivation.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="erlang-mk-packages">
<title>Erlang.mk Packages</title>
<para>
Erlang.mk functions almost identically to Rebar. The only real
difference is that <literal>buildErlangMk</literal> is called
instead of <literal>buildRebar3</literal>
</para>
<programlisting>
{ buildErlangMk, fetchHex, cowlib, ranch }:
buildErlangMk {
name = "cowboy";
version = "1.0.4";
src = fetchHex {
pkg = "cowboy";
version = "1.0.4";
sha256 =
"6a0edee96885fae3a8dd0ac1f333538a42e807db638a9453064ccfdaa6b9fdac";
};
beamDeps = [ cowlib ranch ];
meta = {
description = ''Small, fast, modular HTTP server written in
Erlang.'';
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.isc;
homepage = "https://github.com/ninenines/cowboy";
};
}
</programlisting>
</section>
<section xml:id="mix-packages">
<title>Mix Packages</title>
<para>
Mix functions almost identically to Rebar. The only real
difference is that <literal>buildMix</literal> is called
instead of <literal>buildRebar3</literal>
</para>
<programlisting>
{ buildMix, fetchHex, plug, absinthe }:
buildMix {
name = "absinthe_plug";
version = "1.0.0";
src = fetchHex {
pkg = "absinthe_plug";
version = "1.0.0";
sha256 =
"08459823fe1fd4f0325a8bf0c937a4520583a5a26d73b193040ab30a1dfc0b33";
};
beamDeps = [ plug absinthe];
meta = {
description = ''A plug for Absinthe, an experimental GraphQL
toolkit'';
license = stdenv.lib.licenses.bsd3;
homepage = "https://github.com/CargoSense/absinthe_plug";
};
}
</programlisting>
</section>
</section>
</section>
<section xml:id="how-to-develop">
<title>How to develop</title>
<section xml:id="accessing-an-environment">
<title>Accessing an Environment</title>
<para>
Often, all you want to do is be able to access a valid
environment that contains a specific package and its
dependencies. we can do that with the <literal>env</literal>
part of a derivation. For example, lets say we want to access an
erlang repl with ibrowse loaded up. We could do the following.
</para>
<programlisting>
~/w/nixpkgs ❯❯❯ nix-shell -A beamPackages.ibrowse.env --run "erl"
Erlang/OTP 18 [erts-7.0] [source] [64-bit] [smp:4:4] [async-threads:10] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]
Eshell V7.0 (abort with ^G)
1> m(ibrowse).
Module: ibrowse
MD5: 3b3e0137d0cbb28070146978a3392945
Compiled: January 10 2016, 23:34
Object file: /nix/store/g1rlf65rdgjs4abbyj4grp37ry7ywivj-ibrowse-4.2.2/lib/erlang/lib/ibrowse-4.2.2/ebin/ibrowse.beam
Compiler options: [{outdir,"/tmp/nix-build-ibrowse-4.2.2.drv-0/hex-source-ibrowse-4.2.2/_build/default/lib/ibrowse/ebin"},
debug_info,debug_info,nowarn_shadow_vars,
warn_unused_import,warn_unused_vars,warnings_as_errors,
{i,"/tmp/nix-build-ibrowse-4.2.2.drv-0/hex-source-ibrowse-4.2.2/_build/default/lib/ibrowse/include"}]
Exports:
add_config/1 send_req_direct/7
all_trace_off/0 set_dest/3
code_change/3 set_max_attempts/3
get_config_value/1 set_max_pipeline_size/3
get_config_value/2 set_max_sessions/3
get_metrics/0 show_dest_status/0
get_metrics/2 show_dest_status/1
handle_call/3 show_dest_status/2
handle_cast/2 spawn_link_worker_process/1
handle_info/2 spawn_link_worker_process/2
init/1 spawn_worker_process/1
module_info/0 spawn_worker_process/2
module_info/1 start/0
rescan_config/0 start_link/0
rescan_config/1 stop/0
send_req/3 stop_worker_process/1
send_req/4 stream_close/1
send_req/5 stream_next/1
send_req/6 terminate/2
send_req_direct/4 trace_off/0
send_req_direct/5 trace_off/2
send_req_direct/6 trace_on/0
trace_on/2
ok
2>
</programlisting>
<para>
Notice the <literal>-A beamPackages.ibrowse.env</literal>.That
is the key to this functionality.
</para>
</section>
<section xml:id="creating-a-shell">
<title>Creating a Shell</title>
<para>
Getting access to an environment often isn't enough to do real
development. Many times we need to create a
<literal>shell.nix</literal> file and do our development inside
of the environment specified by that file. This file looks a lot
like the packageing described above. The main difference is that
<literal>src</literal> points to project root and we call the
package directly.
</para>
<programlisting>
{ pkgs ? import "<nixpkgs"> {} }:
with pkgs;
let
f = { buildRebar3, ibrowse, jsx, erlware_commons }:
buildRebar3 {
name = "hex2nix";
version = "0.1.0";
src = ./.;
erlangDeps = [ ibrowse jsx erlware_commons ];
};
drv = beamPackages.callPackage f {};
in
drv
</programlisting>
<section xml:id="building-in-a-shell">
<title>Building in a shell</title>
<para>
We can leveral the support of the Derivation, regardless of
which build Derivation is called by calling the commands themselv.s
</para>
<programlisting>
# =============================================================================
# Variables
# =============================================================================
NIX_TEMPLATES := "$(CURDIR)/nix-templates"
TARGET := "$(PREFIX)"
PROJECT_NAME := thorndyke
NIXPKGS=../nixpkgs
NIX_PATH=nixpkgs=$(NIXPKGS)
NIX_SHELL=nix-shell -I "$(NIX_PATH)" --pure
# =============================================================================
# Rules
# =============================================================================
.PHONY= all test clean repl shell build test analyze configure install \
test-nix-install publish plt analyze
all: build
guard-%:
@ if [ "${${*}}" == "" ]; then \
echo "Environment variable $* not set"; \
exit 1; \
fi
clean:
rm -rf
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