Genetic Algorithms in Elixir

Installing and Compiling ALEx

The ALE, and subsequently ALEx, requires libsdl1.2^[10] and cmake.^[11] If you don’t have either, you can install them like this:

$ sudo apt-get install libsdl1.2-dev libsdl-gfx1.2-dev \
    libsdl-image1.2-dev cmake

The easiest way to build ALEx on Windows is by installing the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and running your project in the WSL.

Next, you need to add ALEx to your dependencies in mix.exs:

defp deps do
  ...
  {:alex, "~> 0.3.2"}
  ...
end

Now, run mix deps.get. After your dependencies are downloaded, run mix deps.compile. You should see something like this:

$ mix deps.compile
Compiling ALE. This will take some time.

As the output says, ...