Development environment for erlang on Windows

Question

I have an erlang project that includes NIFs with OS specific functions that work with raw sockets. I want to port this project on Windows which means changing the functions in NIFs to work on Windows.

What is the preferred IDE for erlang programming on Windows?

What do I have to set up in order to be able to compile this project?

Answer 1

I'd advice to just down load cygwin with its gcc and try to compile your nif as you would on linux. There are some instructions on github on how to setup an Windows environment to compile Erlang/OTP, but this is probably overkill for your NIF.

As an IDE I would use whatever you are using on Linux, i.e. hopefully Emacs :)

Answer 2

Erlang can be set up as an external tool in msvc.