Specs

1. macOS version 11.5.2
2. xcode version 12.5.1

export environmental variables in your shell

As for me I am using zshrc file. You can also refer to erlang documentation about the different tags used in here.

export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.7 # Big Sur breaks all the things with kerl
export KERL_BUILD_DOCS=yes
export KERL_INSTALL_MANPAGES=yes
export wxUSE_MACOSX_VERSION_MIN=11.3
export EGREP=egrep
export CC=clang
export CPP="clang -E"
export KERL_USE_AUTOCONF=0
export KERL_CONFIGURE_OPTIONS="--disable-debug \
                               --disable-hipe \
                               --disable-sctp \
                               --disable-silent-rules \
                               --enable-darwin-64bit \
                               --enable-dynamic-ssl-lib \
                               --disable-parallel-configure \
                               --enable-kernel-poll \
                               --enable-shared-zlib \
                               --enable-smp-support \
                               --enable-threads \
                               --enable-wx \
                              --with-ssl=/usr/local/opt/openssl@1.1 \
                              --with-wx-config=/usr/local/Cellar/wxwidgets/3.1.5/bin/wx-config \
                              --with-javac"

asdf erlang installation for other OTP versions

• install asdf package manager via homebrew

$ brew install asdf

• add erlang plugin

$ asdf plugin add erlang

• remove autoconf using homebrew and manually install autoconf version 2.69

$ brew remove autoconf

$ curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autoconf/autoconf-2.69.tar.gz
$ tar zxvf autoconf-2.69.tar.gz
$ cd autoconf-2.69
$ ./configure && make && sudo make install

• select an erlang version that you want

$ asdf list-all erlang

• install erlang

Because of privileges issues on my laptop, I intended to use sudo command. In my case I choose erlang 22.3 to install

$ sudo asdf install erlang 22.3

On the other hand, you can also use a simple asdf command if you are confident that you have the right privileges in your laptop.

$ asdf install erlang 22.3

• run erl -v command and see to it that you have seen this

references: elixir forum