I’ve recently been intrigued by RabbitMQ which is an implementation of AMPQ (Advanced Message Queuing Protocol) written in Erlang. Here’s the short and sweet installation instructions for Erlang on Mac OS X:

1. Download the most recent release from here.
2. tar -xzf otp_src_R13B02-1.tar.gz
3. cd otp_src_R13B02-1
4. ./configure
5. make
6. sudo make install

你到下载页面会发现,并没有OSX版本的Erlang,这时需要下载source,然后自己make,编译.

启动Erlang:

如果你使用unix系统的话，请输入“erl”；而如果你使用Window系统的话，请点击Erlang的开始图标来启动Erlang.

按照上面的步骤安装完之后,在终端下输入:erl,显示如下,“>”提示表示了系统正在等待输入。

MacBookPro:otp_src_R14A shang$ erl

Erlang R14A (erts-5.8) [source] [smp:2:2] [rq:2] [async-threads:0] [hipe] [kernel-poll:false]

Eshell V5.8 (abort with ^G)

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For more information about Erlang:

• Erlang.org
• Erlang@Wikipedia