windows container for building flutter desktop apps
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These windows images are based upon ltsc2019 and have have all dependencies installed to build flutter desktop apps for windows.
The images have an entrypoint script, which creates a release build of a flutter app mounted at C:\src within a container. After building the app the result is copied to C:\src\build_container.
Assuming the source of a flutter app is located at C:\myapp on your system, the following command will create a windows build of it and put the result into C:\myapp\build_container.
docker run --rm -v C:\myapp:C:\src tauu/flutter-windows-builder:latest
The following options can be specified as command line options to docker run.
-example Build the example app of a package mounted at C:\src.-msix Create a msix package after building the app. This requires that the msix package has been added as a dev dependency to the app.The image can be used in a Gitlab CI job description to build a flutter app and provide the result build as an artifact.
build-windows:
stage: build
image:
name: tauu/flutter-windows-builder:latest
entrypoint: ["C:\\Windows\\system32\\WindowsPowerShell\\v1.0\\powershell.exe"]
script:
# Move the whole source directory to C:\mysrc, as it is not possible to build
# the project in its default location. The default location is within an alias mount.
# Within this mount it is not possible to create a symlink to a file / directory
# outside of it. When downloading packages, flutter tries to create symlinks
# in windows\flutter\ephemeral\.plugin_symlinks, which point to the plugin
# directory in the local pub cache. The cache resides in the flutter
# installation and is not part of the filesystem exposed by the alias mount.
# Consequently creating the link will fail and the build exits with an error.
# Building in C:\src does also not work, as this directory is marked
# as a volume in the dockerfile.
- New-Item -Path "C:\" -Name "mysrc" -ItemType "directory"
- Copy-Item -Path ".\*" -Destination "C:\mysrc\" -Recurse
- cd C:\mysrc\
- flutter clean
- flutter build windows --release
# Copy output back to the original build directory,
# as gitlab-runner searches for it in this location.
- cd -
- Copy-Item -Path "C:\mysrc\build" -Destination "." -Recurse
artifacts:
paths:
- build\windows\runner\Release\*
The Dockerfile to create the image has been inspired by the flutter-windows image created by Open Privacy.
Content type
Image
Digest
sha256:e21f1b161…
Size
8.8 GB
Last updated
over 1 year ago
docker pull tauu/flutter-windows-builder