Intellij-elixir: "Probably SDK is corrupt" when Elixir is installed with asdf.

[folz]

I'm using the asdf version manager to install Erlang and Elixir on Mac OSX El Capitan.

Whenever I open a .ex file, I get a yellow warning "Project SDK is not defined":

Clicking "Setup SDK" prompts me to select the folder Elixir is located in, which I do:

Selecting that folder gives me the error message in the title of this issue:

I'm able to choose it as my SDK anyway...

but the yellow warning bar from the first screenshot never goes away.

Unsure if this is a duplicate of #232, but the readme asks I open an issue for unsupported package managers. Let me know if you need any more information. Thanks!

[tsuharesu]

It is working with Elixir 1.3.2 and latest version of the plugin

[KronicDeth]

@tsuharesu do you have Elixir 1.3.1 available? I want to be sure the current version of the plugin fixes it OR if Elixir 1.3.2 fixes it and I still need a fix to make Elixir 1.3.1 work with the plugin.

[tsuharesu]

@KronicDeth no, just 1.3.2. I can install and test it...

[shamanime]

It's failing with 1.3.3 here.

[cesarizu]

Is this a duplicate of #308 ?

[nivanson]

Hi, it seems to me as if the issue is actually erl not beeing available in PATH if installed by asdf. I can work around this issue by adding a symlink from my erlang installation to somewhere in my path. I think this might not be a bug in intellij-elixir but just a pretty bad error message. I hope this helps someone.

cd /usr/bin
sudo ln -s /home/<your username>/.asdf/installs/erlang/19.1/bin/erl
sudo ln -s /home/<your username>/.asdf/installs/elixir/1.4.0/bin/elixir
sudo ln -s /home/<your username>/.asdf/installs/elixir/1.4.0/bin/iex
sudo ln -s /home/<your username>/.asdf/installs/elixir/1.4.0/bin/mix

Not sure if elixir mix and/or iex needs to be in PATH as well but it works for me now

[KronicDeth]

I know in the past I've had to change the PATH that IntelliJ has launched with for it to see homebrew installed binaries, such as git, so this could be a similar problem asdf or really anything that changes PATH, but only for login shells, since GUI apps won't have those PATH changes. I probably do need to implement a general way to set both the path to Erlang and the path to Elixir since there are other issues with using kerl Erlang, but homebrew Elixir. As far as I know, it's only possible to set one SDK path, so I'll have to look to see how I can attach the Erlang path to the Elixir SDK while keeping that the primary path. Probably similar to how mix path is added now.

[percygrunwald]

FWIW I encountered this error after upgrading to Mac OS 10.13 from 10.12. I was using the asdf Erlang and Elixir installations as SDKs in IntelliJ without any problems in 10.12.

After upgrading, I:

• Reinstalled Erlang 20.1 and Elixir 1.4.4, both with asdf
• Removed all pre-existing Erlang and Elixir SDKs configured in IntelliJ
• Added Erlang 20.1 SDK to IntelliJ (although this is an asdf install, it is added with no problems)
• Tried to add Elixir 1.4.4 SDK to IntelliJ, but encountered the problem stated by OP. If I continue with the apparently corrupt Elixir SDK, my IntelliJ becomes unresponsive and I need to CMD + OPT + ESC force quit the application, remove the SDK/.idea/.iml to get everything working again.
• Tried the same with Elixir 1.4.5 and 1.5.3 and the same issue presents itself

I have also tried all the solutions listed in this thread (e.g. symlinking Erlang/Elixir executables into /usr/local/bin), as well as trying the advice listed here to get the PATH the same as my CLI: http://depressiverobot.com/2016/02/05/intellij-path.html. None of them seemed to change anything at all.

Hope this helps to shed some light on this issue.

[iamsteeve]

i used asdf global elixir <version> same for erlang and it solved the problem for me i guess its the quick fix