gsauthof/fedora-cxx-devel repository overview

Repository of Docker images

See also https://hub.docker.com/u/gsauthof/⁠ for the built images.

2016, Georg Sauthoff [email protected]⁠

⁠Images

⁠fedora/cxx-devel

Layered on top of the official Fedora 25 image. Includes everything one needs to compile a >= C++11 project that uses relatively recent version of Boost/Qt5/libxml2 etc.

Also includes:

• cmake, make, ninja
• bison, flex, ragel
• gcc + static analyzers, cmake

The entrypoint of the container is /usr/bin/sleep infinity, such that one can easily use docker exec to execute build scripts. See tree-model/.travis.yml⁠ and imapdl/.travis.yml⁠ for examples.

The container has configured an unprivileged default user (nomen est omen: compile-user) such that all exec commands are executed as normal user without root privileges, by default. You can still specify the root user with the docker exec command, though. This makes sense for the CI use-case, especially when the setup steps aren't large enough to warrant for building another Docker container image layered on top of this one. Example:

$ docker exec --user root devel dnf -y install botan-devel

⁠fedora/cxx-runtime

Based on Fedora 25, contains all runtime dependencies to run unittests of a C++/Boost/Qt5 project.

For executing GUI unittests in a headless environment, it contains Xvfb, the virtual framebuffer X server. That X server is the entrypoint of the container.

See tree-model/.travis.yml⁠ for an example.

⁠fedora/mingw64-devel

Based on Fedora 23, contains everything to cross-compile a C/C++/Boost/Qt5 project to Windows (64 bit).

tree-model/.travis.yml⁠ for an example.

⁠fedora/mingw64-runtime

Based on Fedora, contains everything to run console based windows binaries (64 bit) under wine.

⁠Automated Builds

The docker images available at https://hub.docker.com/u/gsauthof/⁠ are automatically created when something is pushed to this github repository.

Besides simplifying the deployment this should also increase the transparency of the created binary images.

Note that until 2016-04-03, the cxx-devel/runtime images were published as standard docker repositories. Not as automated builds. On 2016-04-03 those old repositories were deleted and replaced with automate build repositories that have the same names.