beamer - a different way of building erlang applications

beamer is a module for compiling, making, and loading Erlang modules with a rather different approach.

Using it

First step is to set your ~/.erlang file to use beamer for

{ ok, [[Home]]} = init:get_argument(home).	
code:add_patha(Home ++ "/.beamer").
code:load_file(beamer).

This will add the ~/.beamer directory to your module search path and then loads beamer. If you want beamer to load all of your .beam files add the line:

beamer:load_all().

To the end.

Compiling Modules:

By default we expect the structure of the directory to be:

../.git - src/*.erl - README.md

If you want to compile all of the *.erl in your current work project, (where the src directory is) you can use:

beamer:make().

If you want to compile another project somewhere else you can say:

beamer:make("D:/code/my_project/").

Where it is the path to where the project's "src/" directory lives.

You can also compile a specific file using:

beamer:compile("D:/code/my_project/src/some.erl").

And you can then load a specific module using the command:

beamer:load(some).

All of the .beam files that beamer compiles for you will be in your ~/.beamer/ directory and this works fine as long as you don't have multiple modules with the same name.

Command Line Tools:

j There's also a escript and a bat file for compiling things on the command line.

./beamer make

Will run beamer:make() and

./beamer make d:/code/my_project

Will run beamer:make("d:/code/my_project").

You can also compile an individual file using

./beamer compile src/some.erl