I’ve been trying to debug just a simple Phoenix application with IntelliJ, but it doesn’t work. Firstly, I created a “hello” Phoenix application with the following command. mix phx.new hello --no-ecto --no-brunch Then, I created a IntelliJ project by importing the source code and set up the Run…

If that is the complete command line, then it looks like it is using the fallback erl invocation when your Elixir SDK and it’s Erlang SDK are not setup for the project. Make sure those are setup using the Import Project From External Model (Mix) in the README. If they are setup correctly you’ll s…

Thank you! I made sure VS Code provides the debug capability and it works :slight_smile:

Thank you for your advice! I made sure that I set up the project as README mentioned, but it doesn’t work. If I figure out what’s wrong later, I’ll let you know.

Check that your SDKs are setup. They should have been created during the import if missing: File > Project Structure Click Platform Settings > SDKs Verify you have an Elixir SDK Click the Elixir SDK Verify you have an Internal Erlang SDK on the Elixir SDK Verify the Elixir SDK has both Elixir and…

Thank you for your detailed explanation. I made sure each settings. Verify you have an Elixir SDK Verify you have an Internal Erlang SDK on the Elixir SDK [image] Verify the Elixir SDK has both Elixir and Erlang ebin directories like …/elixir/ebin and erlang/lib/kernel-5.4.1/ebin I checked…

[image] tsuyoshi84: I checked the following directories exist: /Users/tsuyoshi.yamaguchi/.kiex/elixirs/elixir-1.6.5/lib/elixir/lib/elixir/ebin ~/erlang/20.3/lib/kernel-5.4.3/ebin Sorry, I didn’t mean to imply check they exist on-disk. I mean that they should appear in your Classpath tab. …

You’ve hit the nail! I checked Classpath, and it turned out ebin paths was not set at all. After setting ebin paths manually, the debug mode worked out. [image] I looked around some source code of the IntelliJ plugin, and apparently the path to the ebin directories are different from the path ex…

This just helped me out. Thanks for posting your solution!

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sribe June 24, 2018, 4:03pm 2

IIRC, I never got debugging working in IntelliJ, but it did work in VS Code.