Want to share the outcome of a vivid discussion today at the Munich D Meetup with you.

Installation of a D Compiler is ok-ish. But sometime you don't want to install it. Sometimes you want a very clean compiler-environment. Sometimes you want to compile your projects in the cloud and not on your local PC.

To ease this a bit I drafted Docker Images for the Compilers (dmd, ldc, gdc, sdc) [1]. Based on this you have a clean compilation environment. And you even could use dub with it. No installation anymore.

Want to know how to use it? [2], [3]

The usage examples are in the repo are currently:
 - return code - simplest D program for compilation with dmd, ldc, gdc, sdc
 - hello world - simplest D program using phobos
 - all_dmd_versions - simplest D program compiled with all available DMD versions
 - dub - simplest dub project
 - building dub - building dub with dub as a complex real world use case

Really would appreciate your feedback!

[1] Docker Hub:
https://hub.docker.com/r/dlanguage/

[2] Slides:
https://github.com/d-muc/talks/raw/master/2017_02_14.d_and_the_cloud/D-Compiler-in-Docker.pdf

[3] Github Repo with Examples:
https://github.com/d-muc/docker-compiler-examples

On Tuesday, 14 February 2017 at 23:24:03 UTC, Stefan wrote:
> Want to share the outcome of a vivid discussion today at the Munich D Meetup with you.
>
> Installation of a D Compiler is ok-ish. But sometime you don't want to install it. Sometimes you want a very clean compiler-environment. Sometimes you want to compile your projects in the cloud and not on your local PC.
>
> To ease this a bit I drafted Docker Images for the Compilers (dmd, ldc, gdc, sdc) [1]. Based on this you have a clean compilation environment. And you even could use dub with it. No installation anymore.
>
> Want to know how to use it? [2], [3]
>
> The usage examples are in the repo are currently:
>  - return code - simplest D program for compilation with dmd, ldc, gdc, sdc
>  - hello world - simplest D program using phobos
>  - all_dmd_versions - simplest D program compiled with all available DMD versions
>  - dub - simplest dub project
>  - building dub - building dub with dub as a complex real world use case
>
> Really would appreciate your feedback!
>
> [1] Docker Hub:
> https://hub.docker.com/r/dlanguage/
>
> [2] Slides:
> https://github.com/d-muc/talks/raw/master/2017_02_14.d_and_the_cloud/D-Compiler-in-Docker.pdf
>
> [3] Github Repo with Examples:
> https://github.com/d-muc/docker-compiler-examples

Saw your images and was really happy its always up to date. I might build a vibe.d image upon it with some neccesary dependencies.

Planning to use it with Deis Workflow(Self hosting PaaS aka Open source Heroku: deis.com) with uses k8s and docker under the hood.

On Tuesday, 14 February 2017 at 23:24:03 UTC, Stefan wrote:
> Want to share the outcome of a vivid discussion today at the Munich D Meetup with you.
>
> Installation of a D Compiler is ok-ish. But sometime you don't want to install it. Sometimes you want a very clean compiler-environment. Sometimes you want to compile your projects in the cloud and not on your local PC.
>
> To ease this a bit I drafted Docker Images for the Compilers (dmd, ldc, gdc, sdc) [1]. Based on this you have a clean compilation environment. And you even could use dub with it. No installation anymore.
>

Seems to be very useful for testing. I have mostly only the latest stable dmd installed in the system. But need to test against elder versions and other compilers before travis reports that the build fails.