docker-espidf

Builds a esp-idf docker image.

The toolchains usually installed by running esp-idf/install.sh are compiled from source to (hopefully) allow usage on architectures not officially supported.

Some minor patches are applied to make it work on ppc64le.

For prebuild images, see https://hub.docker.com/r/theantz/espidf.

build

• clone/checkout the branch for the version you want to use
• optionally update TZ and UID in build_espidf/Dockerfile (the uid should match your host uid because you want your bind-mounted project directory to be editable by your regular user)
• run make

Example:

git clone --depth 1 -b 4.4.2 https://github.com/the-antz/docker-espidf.git
cd docker-espidf
# <-- optionally edit build_espidf/Dockerfile -->
sudo make

This creates the docker images espidf-toolchain and espidf. You can delete espidf-toolchain after espidf was created.

The toolchain compilation is going to take quite a while.

usage

If you want to change anything in conf.default, create a copy conf (used by the start script below).

To start the container (assuming your device is connected as /dev/ttyUSB0):

./start.sh /dev/ttyUSB0

To start the container without a device connected:

./start.sh

To start further shells in the container:

./join.sh

Keep stuff you don't want to lose in the projects folder!

The container is started with the --rm flag, meaning everything not bind-mounted gets deleted when the container stops.