saxofon/wrlinux_builder repository overview

⁠Description

Use this to build older wrlinux's in case host distribution on your machine is too new.

The docker's contain dependencies needed for wrlinux tools & projects. They do not contain wrlinux tools or projects though so you need to have that available in host, then add some " -v ::shared" parameters so that the docker can find them. I use same path in docker as in host so that all setups etc will have same path's in both worlds.

⁠One time job to setup container

⁠Download base image

⁠tag 204 should be capable of building wrlinux 2.0.4 projects

docker pull wrlinux_builder:204

⁠tag 43 should be capable of building wrlinux 4.3 projects

docker pull wrlinux_builder:43

⁠tag 5_8 should be capable of building wrlinux 5.0.1 up to wrlinux 8 projects

docker pull wrlinux_builder:5_8

⁠Create instance

⁠sharing homedir and a datadir (/opt) between instance and native host

docker run -d -P --name my_builder
-v /opt:/opt:shared
-v $HOME:$HOME:shared
-it wrlinux_builder:5_8 bash

⁠Run as root

docker exec -it my_builder bash

⁠Create user

docker exec -it my_builder useradd --shell /bin/bash -u $(id -u) -c "" $(id -un)

⁠Run as user

docker exec -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -it my_builder /bin/bash

⁠if machine has been rebooted or so, start builder again

docker start my_builder

⁠Normal day to day work

⁠after all created good, this is perhaps the most used line...

time docker exec -u $(id -u):$(id -g) -it my_builder make -C ${HOME}/projects/proj-a all