8 Sinan is a build tool designed to build Erlang/OTP Projects, Releases
9 and Applications. Sinan leverages the metadata artifacts provided by
10 OTP to do a good job building, testing, releasing, etc with very
11 little or no additional input from the developer.
16 By far the easiest way to get sinan is to download it from the
17 [downloads site](https://github.com/erlware/sinan/downloads).
19 More Information and FAQ
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22 Sinan has extensive further documentation in its
23 [wiki on github](https://github.com/erlware/sinan/wiki). Check there
26 The Sinan FAQ is available at
27 [here](https://github.com/erlware/sinan/wiki/FAQ).
31 A community exists around Sinan and the other Erlware projects. You
32 may participate in the community and ask questions by joining the
33 [erlware-questions](http://groups.google.com/group/erlware-questions)
40 To get started just cd into an OTP Application and type
44 This will give you an fully built OTP application under the _build
45 directory. You can then run the command
49 to get an erlang shell with all the paths pointing correctly to the
50 various parts of your system.
52 If you want to get adventurous you can run all the eunit tests in your
57 and finially, if you want to package up a normal erlang release
62 The tarball will end up in
64 <project-root>/_build/<release-name>/tar/<app-name>-<app-vsn>.tar.gz
66 To get a list of all tasks currently available run the command
70 Hopefully thats enough to get you started, but sinan has many options
71 to do various things with projects from small single app projects to
72 very large multiple app projects. To get more information take a look