Wrong path variable entered when x86 install chosen for ErlangOTP
morr0350 opened this issue · 2 comments
When using the Windows Installer, on Windows 11, I chose the x86 installation for Erlang/OTP in the installation dialog. It correctly installed the x86 version, however, the path that was entered in my environment variables was "C:\Program Files\Erlang OTP\bin", which would be the path if it were the 64-bit version. It was easy to solve by editing the path to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Erlang OTP\bin", but the error you get from elixir is a bit cryptic when it can't find the erlang binaries! ({"init terminating in do_boot".....etc etc).
I think what may have been a factor is that I had a very old forgotten 64-bit install of erlang in Program Files with a different directory naming convention (C:\Program Files\erlang) than the current "Erlang OTP" convention. Maybe the Windows registry key still matched for the old install and the installer thought it should go ahead and create a 64-bit path variable but with the new naming convention "Erlang OTP"?
Perhaps it is working as designed and I should have made sure to uninstall previous Erlang versions, but either way, "C:\Program Files\Erlang OTP\bin" was not a correct Path variable since that directory did not exist after install.
Perhaps this is a duplicate of #28 and I should have properly uninstalled previous Erlang versions before running the installer. Feel free to close if this is just a duplicate, as for me, updating my path corrected the issue, but entirely uninstalling the old erlang version and reinstalling elixir also likely would've had the same effect.
Thanks for reporting nonetheless. Unfortunately we rely on the registry for detecting Erlang - and that ends as well as you'd expect for the registry ;).