Dockerfile

[msalazarcgeo]

PR Description

Dockerfile added

Checklist

• Unit-test of your feature with Catch.
• Doxygen documentation of the code completed (classes, methods, types, members...)
• Documentation module page added or updated.
• New entry in the ChangeLog.md added.
• No warning raised in Debug cmake mode (otherwise, Travis C.I. will fail).
• All continuous integration tests pass (Travis & appveyor)

[dcoeurjo]

Could you please add your name + link to this PR ?

[msalazarcgeo]

Done in 6adb2b0

[dcoeurjo]

thanks @msalazarcgeo for the PR.
Could you also please add a new line in the AUTHORS file?

[msalazarcgeo]

thanks @msalazarcgeo for the PR.
Could you also please add a new line in the AUTHORS file?

Do yo want me to add my name to it?
I have added in 6adb2b0 I'm not sure if the PR has the changes

[dcoeurjo]

For the Qt thing (it would be great to have a solution for that), https://forums.docker.com/t/start-a-gui-application-as-root-in-a-ubuntu-container/17069 or http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-docker/ seem to be related...

[dcoeurjo]

(thx for the AUTHORS)

[msalazarcgeo]

For the Qt thing (it would be great to have a solution for that), https://forums.docker.com/t/start-a-gui-application-as-root-in-a-ubuntu-container/17069 or http://fabiorehm.com/blog/2014/09/11/running-gui-apps-with-docker/ seem to be related...

As I mentioned when I send you the file, I was able to run the GUI on my computer using what you have found (sharing the X-server files). But I couldn't run it without the Nvidia driver since my system has only an Nvidia-GPU as an output video. To connect your system with the docker container using the "digital" user you have to add the following share volumes to the docker run command

-v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:rw
 --privileged -h $HOSTNAME -v $HOME/.Xauthority:/home/digital/.Xauthority

This would allow the "digital" user to run most of the GUI (that is the case on my system with the Nvidia drivers). I couldn't test on another computer my apologies.

[dcoeurjo]

Thanks for the comment (I'm not specialist in Docker). I'll try on a Nvidia machine (even if I'm not sure to so why it is nvidia GPU specific but anyway..).

[msalazarcgeo]

Thanks for the comment (I'm not specialist in Docker). I'll try on a Nvidia machine (even if I'm not sure to so why it is nvidia GPU specific but anyway..).

If you try this image on a machine with an Nvidia GPU I guess that it will not work. If you want, I can send you the Docker file that I use. The reason why I believe that It won't work is that the Docker image does not have the Nvidia drivers installed.

These parameters

-v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:rw
 --privileged -h $HOSTNAME -v $HOME/.Xauthority:/home/digital/.Xauthority

don't have anything to do with the fact that have if you have an Nvidia GPU. The parameters are added so that the Docker container has access to the X11 server and the Xauthority file on the system (with the proper credentials) and that the docker container can send the generated image to the X11 server to be displayed (or at least that is what I understand, I'm not an expert neither).

[dcoeurjo]

Sorry @msalazarcgeo for the delay. I was in a rush this week and would have more time the next one.

Just a quick question: are all optional deps enabled in your docker image ?

[msalazarcgeo]

Sorry @msalazarcgeo for the delay. I was in a rush this week and would have more time the next one.

Just a quick question: are all optional deps enabled in your docker image ?

Don't worry @dcoeurjo.

"Just a quick question: are all optional deps enabled in your docker image ?"

Not all, but I tried to put as many as I could. In the Dockerfile you can see the cmake command to know the ones that are up.

[dcoeurjo]

I think we're good. thx @msalazarcgeo !
🎉