Rebar3 release does not run and crash with cannot expand $ERTS_LIB_DIR in bootfile

Question

Erlang Version = Erlang/OTP 19

I have created a new erlang application using rebar3 Here are the steps:

rebar3 new app myapp
rebar3 compile
rebar3 new release myrel
cd myrel
rebar3 release
cd myrel/myapp/_build/default/rel/myapp/bin
./myapp start

I get the following error:

init terminating in do_boot (cannot expand $ERTS_LIB_DIR in bootfile) Crash dump is being written to: erl_crash.dump...done

Can someone please check what I am missing here? Thanks.

Answer 1

If you do something like rebar3 as prod tar you should get a .tar.gz file that can be expanded on the server, with bin/myapp used to start/stop/attach. If you do something like rebar3 release , it'll build into _build/ , with the start/stop script being in _build/default/rel/myapp/bin/myapp . Why are you using rebar3 new release myrel ?