How to install LFE (Lisp Flavored Erlang) on Windows

0. Install cygwin with git and make.

1. Install rebar
in cygwin do

export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/<erlang-install-dir>/bin

e.g. export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/erl5.10.4/bin

git clone git://github.com/rebar/rebar.git

cd rebar

bootstrap

this will generate rebar and rebar.cmd file.

2. Install LFE

in cygwn do

export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/<rebar-install-dir>

e.g. export PATH=$PATH:/cygdrive/c/erlang/rebar

git clone --branch develop git://github.com/rvirding/lfe.git
cd lfe

vi Makefile  ## change makefile to use rebar.cmd instead of rebar

%s/rebar /rebar.cmd /g

:wq

make

erl -pa /somewhere/lfe/ebin -noshell -s lfe_shell start

Instead of using "erl -pa ..." option, you can copy the whole lfe directory under the <erlang-install-dir>/lib

and use "erl -noshell -s lfe_shell start".

example:

$ pwd
/cygdrive/c/lfe
$ ls
bin  ebin   Emakefile  include  Makefile         rebar.config  test
doc  emacs  examples   LICENSE  README.markdown  src           VERSION

$ erl -pa ebin -noshell -s lfe_shell start
LFE Shell V5.10.4 (abort with ^G)
> (+ 1 2 )
3
> (: lists reverse '(3 2 1))
(1 2 3)
> (halt)
$

lfeshell.bat

set path=%path%;c:\erl5.10.4\bin
erl -pa ebin -noshell -s lfe_shell start

Starting GUI lfe shell

werl -pa \path\to\lfe\ebin

1> lfe_shell:server(). 

Ref.

https://github.com/rvirding/lfe/wiki/Get-started

https://github.com/rvirding/lfe/blob/develop/doc/lfe_shell.txt 

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4698591/lisp-flavored-erlang-on-windows

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2835942/how-do-i-install-lfe-on-ubuntu-karmic