How to install, compile, and utilize Rebar in Windows 8
erlang, rebar, windows
Solution
There should be a `bootstrap.bat` script in the rebar directory. You don't need cygwin for this to work, but you will need Erlang installed and on the path.
Problem
Is this possible? All tutorials I've come across on how to build and use Rebar involve Unix commands, and I'm a most unfortunate Windows user. I'd really like to avoid installing Cygwin if I can help it. For example, to build Rebar you get: ``` $ git clone git://github.com/rebar/rebar.git $ cd rebar $ ./bootstrap Recompile: src/getopt ... Recompile: src/rebar_utils ==> rebar (compile) Congratulations! You now have a self-contained script called "rebar" in your current working directory. Place this script anywhere in your path and you can use rebar to build OTP-compliant apps. ``` What is the windows-cmd equivalent? Any links or tutorial below to offer step by step instructions on how to utilize rebar in windows shell would be greatly appreciated. UPDATE: After manually downloading and extracting Rebar to my directory located at: C:\erlang\rebar I go to the windows shell and enter: ``` SET PATH=C:\Program Files\erl5.10.1\bin ``` This is the 'bin' folder located inside the directory holding erlang.exe Next I enter: ``` C:\erlang\rebar>bootstrap.bat ``` Compiled! :)