5.3. Docker for Buildroot Development¶
5.3.1. Dockerfile¶
# base container image
FROM ubuntu:18.04
# install packages for development
RUN export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive && \
apt-get update --fix-missing && apt upgrade -y && \
apt install -y sudo build-essential libncurses5-dev file git \
bc rsync unzip python cpio wget vim procps silversearcher-ag \
ctags man strace netcat tmux gperf bison flex texinfo locales \
help2man gawk libarchive-zip-perl gdb tree cmake python3
# generate locale
RUN locale-gen en_US.UTF-8 && locale-gen --no-purge --lang en_US.UTF-8
# create a dev user
RUN useradd -m dev && adduser dev sudo && (echo 'dev:dev' | chpasswd)
# set TERM variable to fix ncurses flickering
ENV TERM=xterm-color
# set start user and workdir
USER dev
WORKDIR /home/dev
# default command at startup is bash shell
CMD /bin/bash
5.3.2. Container Commands¶
1. Create container image:
user@host: docker build -t brdev .
2. Launch a persistant container for Buildroot development (brdev
):
user@host: docker run -ti -v ${HOME}/dockershare/:/home/dev/share/ \
--name brdev brdev