Description

This repository contains some script files for building the helix 24.03 editor from source within a docker image. The scripts can be tweaked in order to target specific GLIB library versions. By default ubuntu:20.04 is the docker base image featuring GLIBC version 2.31.

Build under linux

Follow these simple steps:

1. clone locally this repository;
2. CD into the cloned repository folder;
3. run ./build.sh from a shell prompt and wait.

The build.sh script:

1. will build the docker image;
2. run the built image as a docker container;
3. extract the built files into a local host folder.

When the build step is over, you'll find all the required files (binary, grammars, etc ...) in a subfolder labelled helix-24.03. Folder name follows the pattern helix-<VERSION> and can be modified at line 5 of build.sh file.

Configure the helix target version

Modify the VERSION variable at line 3 of the build.sh shell script file.

Configure the OS docker base image

Modify the ubuntu default base image at line 1 of the Dockerfile.

Notes

Git

In order to download the full set of grammars, it was necessary to use in the Dockerfile a recent version of git which is not offered by ubuntu PPAs, beside v2.25.1. Currently the version offered by the git PPA is v2.40.1.

More info can be found on this issue of the official helix repository.