How do I access .beam files from other directories in Erlang?

Question

I have successfully compiled my .erl files and now the .beam files are lying down in my working directory. However, for some reason I need to access those files from another directory... more specifically from the parent directory. The hierarchy is: ...\wkdir\ebin\beam_example.beam , and I wish to access the beam_example.beam from wkdir . Is it possible to do this?

Also, I'm using escript, so a valid import may be very likely to solve this problem, though I just can't figure that out.

Answer 1

You can modify the search path for the .beam with the code:add_path* methods . If the code server is in interactive mode (it should be), that'd be enough for the VM to locate the module files and load them lazily.