[SOLVED] How to install, compile, and utilize Rebar in Windows 8

How to install, compile, and utilize Rebar in Windows 8

Is this possible?

All tutorials I've come across on how to build and use Rebar involve Unix commands, and I'm a most unfortunate Windows user. I'd really like to avoid installing Cygwin if I can help it.

For example, to build Rebar you get:

$ git clone git://github.com/rebar/rebar.git
$ cd rebar
$ ./bootstrap
Recompile: src/getopt
...
Recompile: src/rebar_utils
==> rebar (compile)
Congratulations! You now have a self-contained script called "rebar" in
your current working directory. Place this script anywhere in your path
and you can use rebar to build OTP-compliant apps.

What is the windows-cmd equivalent?

Any links or tutorial below to offer step by step instructions on how to utilize rebar in windows shell would be greatly appreciated.

UPDATE:

After manually downloading and extracting Rebar to my directory located at: C:\erlang\rebar

I go to the windows shell and enter:

SET PATH=C:\Program Files\erl5.10.1\bin

This is the 'bin' folder located inside the directory holding erlang.exe

Next I enter:

C:\erlang\rebar>bootstrap.bat

Compiled! :)

Solution

There should be a bootstrap.bat script in the rebar directory. You don't need cygwin for this to work, but you will need Erlang installed and on the path.