How to make release using rebar without erts?

Question

How to make release using rebar without erts included in?

Answer 1

A release is a self packaged erlang runtime within your application, so i think you just can't.

But you can simply give your application directory with the ebin directory in it as a release.

Answer 2

rebar is a good thing for managing your Erlang prjects indeed. But there are always other options which comes for Erlanf/OTP in the box. Here you can read very good tutorial about other options: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/release-is-the-word

p.s. I think it is worth knowing how the same thing could be done in other way.

Answer 3

Relx is very good at packaging Erlang releases with lots of options, one being what you want: {include_erts, false}.

https://github.com/erlware/relx