Build Containers

Description

Personal collection of build containers for setting up cross-compile toolchains.

Requirements:

• podman
• nvidia-container-toolkit
  • optional, if running nvidia and would like to render to host from the container
  • recommended to install using your distro's package manager if available or AUR

GPU-accelerated containers with host-rendering

Some of these are meant for running GPU-accelerated apps that render on the host.

To test your setup, build glxgears-test:

Note:

You may have to execute xhost +local: in case you run into permission errors

Build:

podman build \
  -t glxgears-test \
  -f src/glxgears-test.dockerfile

Test OpenGL:

podman run -it --rm \
  --device nvidia.com/gpu=0 \
  -e DISPLAY \
  -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:ro \
  glxgears-test:latest "glxgears"

Test Vulkan:

podman run -it --rm \
  --device nvidia.com/gpu=0 \
  -e DISPLAY \
  -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:ro \
  glxgears-test:latest "vkcube"

Note regarding selinux

In addition to these steps, you may need to disable selinux label so that the runtime socket can be properly mounted:

podman run -it --rm \
  --security-opt label=disable \
  --device nvidia.com/gpu=0 \
  -e DISPLAY \
  -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix:ro \
  glxgears-test:latest "glxgears"

On AMD/Intel

Specify --device like:

podman run -it --rm \
  --security-opt label=disable \
  --device /dev/dri \
  -e DISPLAY \
  -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
  glxgears-test:latest "vkcube"

*note that vulkan may fallback to lavapipe if the image does not support latest vulkan drivers

Web dev containers

example:

podman run -itd \
--entrypoint /bin/bash \
-p 3000:3000 \
--name astro_dev \
-v /path/to/project:/src:z \
-w /src \
webdev:latest

where port 3000 on the host is mapped to the container port