What are the steps to successfully run Ranch on windows? - windows

Question

Please what steps do we need to take to get Ranch working successfully on windows?
There is a very instructive set of examples in a great blog series which i am trying to follow here:
http://dbeck.github.io/Using-Ranch-From-Elixir/
http://dbeck.github.io/simple-TCP-message-performance-in-Elixir/
It however requires that we use the Ranch Erlang Lib.
Getting this to work on windows has been a pain so far:
mix.deps.compile fails
C:\Elixir\tcp_eval>mix deps.update --all
Running dependency resolution
Dependency resolution completed successfully
ranch: v1.1.0
C:\Elixir\tcp_eval>mix deps.compile
==> ranch
Access denied - SRC
File not found - -TYPE
File not found - F
File not found - -NAME
Access denied - SRC
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File not found - -NAME
Access denied - SRC
File not found - -TYPE
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Access denied - SRC
File not found - -TYPE
File not found - F
File not found - -NAME
File not found - SRC/
File not found - -TYPE
File not found - F
File not found - -NAME
Access denied - EBIN
File not found - -TYPE
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APP ranch.app.src

Answer 1

With some help from here:
https://github.com/ninenines/erlang.mk/issues/294#issuecomment-147379818
I was able to get Ranch working on windows.
1) install the msys2 environment
2) run mix from within the MSYS2 environment
EDIT: Doing this via rebar
D:\Elixir\tcp_eval>rebar
'rebar' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
D:\Elixir\tcp_eval>rebar3
Rebar3 is a tool for working with Erlang projects.
Usage: rebar [-h] [-v] [<task>]
-h, --help Print this help.
-v, --version Show version information.
<task> Task to run.
Several tasks are available:
as Higher order provider for running multiple tasks in a sequence as a certain profiles.
clean Remove compiled beam files from apps.
compile Compile apps .app.src and .erl files.
cover Perform coverage analysis.
ct Run Common Tests.
deps List dependencies
dialyzer Run the Dialyzer analyzer on the project.
do Higher order provider for running multiple tasks in a sequence.
edoc Generate documentation using edoc.
escriptize Generate escript archive.
eunit Run EUnit Tests.
help Display a list of tasks or help for a given task or subtask.
new Create new project from templates.
path Print paths to build dirs in current profile.
pkgs List available packages.
release Build release of project.
relup Create relup of releases.
report Provide a crash report to be sent to the rebar3 issues page.
shell Run shell with project apps and deps in path.
tar Tar archive of release built of project.
tree Print dependency tree.
unlock Unlock dependencies.
update Update package index.
upgrade Upgrade dependencies.
version Print version for rebar and current Erlang.
xref Run cross reference analysis.
plugins <task>:
list List local and global plugins for this project
upgrade Upgrade plugins
unstable <task>:
install Extract libs from rebar3 escript along with a run script.
upgrade Download latest rebar3 escript and extract.
Run 'rebar3 help <TASK>' for details.
D:\Elixir\tcp_eval>
Looking at Hex.pm, I decided to install rebar3, this works/integrates well with mix.
following http://theburningmonk.com/2014/08/getting-started-with-rebar-on-windows/ we can get rebar3 working on windows
but this still does not work:
D:\Elixir\tcp_eval>mix deps.compile
==> ranch
'make' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
==> tcp_eval
** (Mix) Could not compile dependency :ranch, "make" command failed. You can recompile this dependency with "mix deps.compile ranch",
D:\Elixir\tcp_eval>