Rebar: compiling only project files (without dependencies)

Question

I'm new to Erlang and Rebar and just created my first rebar project.

My development cycle looks like that:

1. Edit project files
2. Invoke rebar compile to recompile project
3. Run my start.bat file to run and test my application
4. Go to step 1 :-)

The problem is that rebar compile seem to always compile both project files and all the dependencies. And I already have quite a bit of dependencies so compilation takes quite long and slows me down.

So the question is: is there a way to tell rebar to compile only my project files during rebar compile (but still have dependencies visible for my compiled files)? My dependencies never change so why do I need to recompile them every time?

Or maybe my whole process is utterly wrong and I should take different approach to my development cycle?

Babineaux

Answer 1

rebar has a skip_deps flag. So you can compile with rebar compile skip_deps=true

Eisenstark

Is it documented anywhere? – Babineaux