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On 23 January 2017 at 23:26, Christian Ridderström <c...@lyx.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've tested to compile LyX locally using one of the Docker containers,
> i.e. I was on a mac and used the Docker image
> "build-lyx-using-ubuntu-latest-qt5-cmake"
> to build LyX as if the build was done in a Ubuntu environment.
>
> In case anyone would like to test this (e.g. to better be able to help me
> figure out why a specific build configuration isn't producing the source
> pacakge), here's the steps:
>
> - Install Docker engine
>
macOS: https://docs.docker.com/docker-for-mac/
>
> - Put a clone of the LyX repo somewhere locally, e.g. at ~/lyx-clone
>
> - Execute
> WORKSPACE=~/lyx-repo # Path on local machine to cloned LyX dir
> SRC=/build/lyx # Path in container for where to mount $WORKSPACE
> IMG_NAME=lyxproject/build-lyx-using-ubuntu-latest-qt5-cmake
> docker run -i -t -v $WORKSPACE:$SRC $IMG_NAME /build/build_lyx.sh $SRC
>
>
The last command will download the Docker image from Docker Hug, start the
container from the image and use the (linux) build environment inside the
container to build LyX.
/Christian
