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Re:Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine by gamache on Friday January 20, 2017 @04:54PM (#13447283)
The VM is not built for every release, it is copied into the release. The fact that it isn't built for each release is why cross-compilation of releases is not possible.
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Re:Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine by chrisseaton on Friday January 20, 2017 @05:00PM (#13447324)
I must be an idiot because I still don't get it. If the VM is just copied into the release, not built, why can't you do that on macOS for deployment on Linux by copying a Linux version in? Why do you need to do it in a VM or Linux build server?
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Re:Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine by gamache on Friday January 20, 2017 @05:03PM (#13447338)
It's probably only that no one's written the tooling for that yet, because it's easy enough to set up a Linux VM or build server.
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Re:Languages on BEAM, the Erlang virtual machine by kungfooguru on Friday January 20, 2017 @07:18PM (#13448029)
The tools (relx, exrm) can do that.
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