composer container does not know about extensions installed in php container

[simevo]

Hi as much as I like your layout, I suspect it can not work properly if some of the dependencies declared in the composer.json require php extensions.

I can install those php extensions in the php container, but the compose script is run by a php binary in the composer container which does not know about extensions installed in php container ...

Do you think this can be patched somehow ?

[devantoine]

Yeah, you nailed it, something is wrong with the current layout.

You could run composer with the --ignore-platform-reqs to make it ignore the missing extensions on the composer image.

I'll be pushing soon a new version of the composer image will get ride of this issue.

[simevo]

This is what we do:
https://github.com/simevo/spid-php-lib-example/blob/master/Dockerfile#L8-10
i.e. in the php container, we install the composer requirements and then pull the composer binary from a random place from the internet ™️

[devantoine]

I like to have my build tools on a separate container because when you go to production you don't want to have your build tools on it.