Erlang.mk provides a convenient target for starting a shell with all the paths set properly to experiment with your code.
The SHELL_DEPS
variable can be used to define dependencies
that are only to be used when the make shell
command is called.
For example, if you want to use kjell as your shell:
SHELL_DEPS = kjell
Dependencies are downloaded and compiled the first time you
run the make shell
command.
You can customize the executable used to start the Erlang shell.
To continue with our example, if you want to use kjell as your
shell, you also need to change SHELL_ERL
and point it to the
kjell
executable:
SHELL_ERL = $(DEPS_DIR)/kjell/bin/kjell
You can specify additional options to be used when starting the
shell using the SHELL_OPTS
variable:
SHELL_OPTS = -setcookie chocolate
Any of the usual erl
options can be used, including -eval
:
SHELL_OPTS = -eval 'my_app:run()'