nimforum mirror - Official Nim Images for Docker

moigagoo (orginal) [2016-08-01T11:13:13+02:00] view original

Hi!

Nim now has a home on Docker hub: https://hub.docker.com/r/nimlang/nim/. There are images for all versions available as .tar.xz archives on nim-lang.org. Adding earlier versions should not be a problem, I just didn't do it yet. Nimble is included in images 0.13.0 and higher, because it is the minimal required version. If there's a way to install Nimble on earlier versions, it's no problem building an image for it. @dom96 is welcome to contribute on this one.

Visit Nim on Docker Hub →

It's not official in Docker terms (i.e. doesn't belong to "_" namespace), but it can be official in general sense, meaning it's endorsed by the language authorities. Do make it so, I need the permission to move the Dockerfile repo https://github.com/moigagoo/nimage/ to nim-lang.

Having a curated, official repo on Docker Hub is important because it lets people dive into Nim development quickly. If @Araq and the community approve, I think we should post a link to this repo on the official website.

A quick note about namespace. I couldn't use "nim" or "nim-lang." Apparently, "nim" is too short and dashes are not allowed, however Docker Hub didn't explain why these namespaces were unavailable.

Feel free to contribute! Email me on moigagoo@live.com, and I'll add you to the repo.

Thanks!

OderWat (orginal) [2016-08-01T15:59:58+02:00] view original

Good work! I just tried it some minutes ago with the new Docker client on Mac and it works pretty well and is very easy nowadays.

BTW: For beginners which just try it out you may add how to access devel or other versions in your compilation example. I just saw that you have this info on the Nim website but not on the docker page.

guitmz (orginal) [2016-08-01T17:31:09+02:00] view original

oh thats nice, i started working on a nimlang docker image last week (http://forum.nim-lang.org/t/2418), i guess i can abandon that now

moigagoo (orginal) [2016-08-01T19:03:38+02:00] view original

@guitmz I'd be happy if instead of abandoning the task completely you'd join this new repo :-) If you're game, I'll be happy to add you to the repos on GitHub and Docker Hub.

moigagoo (orginal) [2016-08-01T19:10:18+02:00] view original

@OderWat Thanks! Done!

guitmz (orginal) [2016-08-01T19:33:00+02:00] view original

@moigagoo sure thing, sounds like a plan to me :)

JohnS (orginal) [2016-08-02T03:37:48+02:00] view original

@guitmz I liked that your images were based off Alpine/musl, I'd be very glad to see those make it in as an option. Alpine & musl make it very easy to compile stand-alone static binaries for POSIX apps with lots of external dependencies.

moigagoo (orginal) [2016-08-02T09:39:42+02:00] view original

Feel free to report issues to the repo: https://github.com/moigagoo/nimage/

Here's the one regarding Alpine: https://github.com/moigagoo/nimage/issues/2

guitmz (orginal) [2016-08-02T19:21:44+02:00] view original

@JohnS yup, its very nice.. that's something I plan to implement in the current project since I now have permissions to push to the repo :) but first i'll implement this as soon as possible https://github.com/moigagoo/nimage/issues/3 (even if its using glibc for the moment)

guitmz (orginal) [2016-08-02T20:11:04+02:00] view original

@moigagoo @JohnS review please? https://github.com/moigagoo/nimage/pull/4

moigagoo (orginal) [2017-02-10T10:39:17+01:00] view original

I'd like to share some news about the official Docker images for Nim:

Versions older than 0.13.0 have been removed because we could not ensure Nimble installation on them.

The default base is now Ubuntu. Debian and Alpine flavors are also available.

Dockerfiles are generated automatically with a Nim app. In order to add an image for a new version, just add it to config.json and mark it as latest. So PRs are very welcome!

dom96 (orginal) [2017-02-10T10:56:35+01:00] view original

Awesome! Thank you for maintaining this. Will need to look into using it for my travis tests :)

moigagoo (orginal) [2017-02-17T20:49:06+01:00] view original

Sorry for the misinformation. Debian images are currently unavailable, there are only Ubuntu and Alpine. I can't see any strong reason to have Debian-based images at this point.

Recenty, I've fixed a critical issue with onbuild images for version 0.16.0 and newer, so those should work fine now.

markprocess (orginal) [2018-07-04T05:32:47+02:00] view original

@moigagoo FYI this fixes the broken logo art work link:

https://github.com/moigagoo/nimage/pull/17

moigagoo (orginal) [2018-07-04T12:13:57+02:00] view original

Thanks! It looks like it's time to rewrite the CI script already... The builds take way too long, I must optimize it.

juancarlospaco (orginal) [2018-07-04T15:19:02+02:00] view original

Would be great if an image has the libs to crosscompile to Windows and to MacOsX.

moigagoo (orginal) [2018-07-05T09:33:30+02:00] view original

I guess adding the flavors for Windows and macOS cross-compilation wouldn't be hard. The problem is I just never bothered with cross-compilation, so I don't know what the necessary dependencies are. If you can get an complete list of what needs to be added into the image, please open an issue and list them there. Thanks!

moigagoo (orginal) [2018-07-05T15:12:04+02:00] view original

I wonder if anyone actually needs slim flavor and Nim versions before 0.17.0. We could significantly simplify the images if we just switch to choosenim instead of building from source.

juancarlospaco (orginal) [2018-07-05T18:11:27+02:00] view original

This is how Ive done it first time, instructions on comments: http://linkode.org/#1FCAxFC9JPKRc12pyupxu6

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