On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 11:13 AM, Dave Cottlehuber <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi everybody, > > I've been building benoitc's awesome erica[1] couchapp tool, which is > written in erlang and some C from CouchDB, into a native windows > version[2]. > > TL;DR: > It would be great if some of you can test it, in particular > > - whether it works on your windows box *without* needing the provided > EJSON.DLL or not > - if you get any SxS or VC runtime errors > - where the ~/.erica/templates files end up on your system > - what version of erlang you have installed > > You'll need to have couchdb\bin in your path so that the > erlang/escript/openssl is available, from one of my builds[3]. > > More info: > > The objective is to have a single file which can be bundled into the > CouchDB binaries that I roll so that there is a consistent couchdb > access tool available on all platforms, more or less out of the box. > Hopefully having one that is developed in erlang will allow both > closer alignment with CouchDB itself and encourage more people to > contribute! > > The modified erica build relies on some changes to rebar, and some > ugly code [4] which I hope to fix soon before pushing a patch back. If > you have SDK 7.0, msys git, and Erlang R14B02/3/4 installed should be > possible to build this yourself, after building rebar [5]. > > For all the nodesters out there, with native windows node.js now > available I will be looking at whether some of those couchapp oriented > tools can be ported too. If you're interested in helping with this > please let me know offlist! > > [1]: https://github.com/benoitc/erica/ > [2]: https://www.dropbox.com/s/oq0bd9w7ufb0a3b/CouchDB/erica/ > [3]: https://github.com/dch/couchdb/downloads > [4]: > https://github.com/dch/erica/commit/172d75a3a67e6d107174ce1db6541ec8c35bbf36 > [5]: > https://github.com/dch/rebar/commit/448805f0383279534877942c27afdbfb6e427885 > > Thanks > Dave > Cool, I need to create a new vm but I will test this week. I can help on the rebar patch too if needed. - benoît
