COMPILE.md

Compiling Erlang

To compile an Erlang program, you need to:

1. Open the terminal
2. Run erl
3. Compile c(<module name>). with (or without) the .erl extension. You can use pwd(). to check the current directory or use cd(<Dir>). to change it.
4. Run the methods you export from the module with <module name>:<method name>(<params>).

You can also use erlc foo.erl to compile the module foo to foo.beam.

You can then run foo using erl -noshell -s foo start -s init stop, where start is the method you want to call. -s init stop is needed to terminate the Erlang session. If you are a fan of Makefiles, this is the way to go.