Installing LFE
Downloading the Source
The most recent version of LFE is always available here:
- https://github.com/rvirding/lfe/
With git
in your PATH
, you can download LFE:
git clone https://github.com/rvirding/lfe.git
cd lfe
You have two choices for the type of LFE build you want to do.
Now everything is ready to go!
Stable
Stable contains a version of LFE that is known to be fully reliable and used in production for years.
To build the latest stable release, make sure you are on the master
branch:
git checkout master
Unstable
Unstable contains LFE that is under active development, has not been released, or has not had extensive use and testing in production environments.
To build the latest unstable LFE, make sure you are on the develop
branch:
git checkout develop
LFE is just a set of Erlang libraries, so like an Erlang project, the source code needs to be compiled to .beam
files. Running make
in the lfe
directory will do that:
make