Elixir Development on Windows 10

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I never made a step-by-step but here is how I made it work, roughly (NOTE: It requires at least Windows 10 Anniversary Edition be installed):

  • Install the Chocolatey Windows package manager.
  • Install Erlang via choco install erlang in an elevated CMD shell. (SIDE NOTE: I use ConEmu64 as a shell, makes life much easier and nicer on the command line in Windows)
  • You can choose between choco install elixir next, or to manually download it from the Elixir releases. I prefer the latter since the maintainer of the Elixir package in Chocolatey doesn’t seem fast, and manual install of Elixir is as simple as extracting a ZIP + adding an entry in your PATH environment variable.

It’s easy from there on. The only possible issues are Git and SSH. I use msysgit 2.x but I had trouble with it and can’t really vouch for it. SSH is just fine if you use PuTTY or KiTTY (or any other fork really) however, but a proper Git setup in CMD is something I never really chased fully.