Hey guys, I just installed Elixir 1.10 on my Arch Linux and I am starting to learn this nice language. I am experiencing some problems with my compiler. I created a new project: mix new cards This worked fine. The project was created. However after I make a change to the .ex file in the lib fol…

Doesn’t this mean mtime is working: [image]

Well, give us the output of ls -l of the Elixir source file you modified with your editor. “Today” might mean 20 hours ago as well.

For me, that’s about an hour in the future :smiley: Also please do not post screenshots. Instead copy and paste into the forum and use markdown code fences to mark your code. For me, the following workflow triggers a rebuild, does it for you as well? $ mix compile ... $ touch lib/foo.ex $ mix com…

I am from the future, ask me anything. I am using Atom, it definitely doesn’t compile on save in my case. However I did install a bunch of Elixir packages. Maybe I should remove them and try again? mix compile doesn’t do anything for me. ‘mix compile --force’ works.

So assuming you have closed your editor (atom had similar problems with some plugins AFAIK) and used the touch trick, and still there happens no recompilation? That’s really weird, can you show the full transcript of trying it?

By the way here’s what I discovered: If there are no errors in the code recompile returns :noop but if I write some random string and then do recompile I get errors: iex(42)> recompile :noop iex(43)> recompile :noop iex(44)> recompile :noop iex(45)> recompile :noop iex(46)> recompile Compilin…

Think we should backtrack. How did you install Elixir? I’d recommend installing both Erlang and Elixir through asdf and use that.

This indeed supports my editor theory. Please do as I said and try provide transcript of compile, touch, compile with all editors closed.

I did remove some Atom autocomplete-elixir package that was giving out an error. ‘recompile’ seems to be working fine now: iex(46)> recompile Compiling 1 file (.ex) warning: variable "muff" is unused (if the variable is not meant to be used, prefix it with an underscore) lib/cards.ex:41: Cards.b…