Pony Express Appliance

Purpose

This Dockerfile creates a sandboxed, runnable Pony Compiler environment based on the latest commit to master on GitHub.

Requirements

This is tested with the following software:

• llvm-3.6
• docker 1.8.0 (running on Ubuntu 14.04)

Since its main dependency is docker, it should run on any platform with docker installed (e.g. Windows, OS X). It may or may not work with earlier versions of docker. To install docker on your system, see the official docker installation instructions.

Installation

To build the docker image:

$ docker build -t rbrewer123/ponyc github.com/rbrewer123/docker_ponyc

You can see your new image with this command:

$ docker images

Grab the ponyc script from github like this:

$ git clone https://github.com/rbrewer123/docker_ponyc

Now update the docker_ponyc/ponyc script to use your correct username, uid, group, and gid. This avoids problems with files being owned by root or other permissions problems that often occur when using docker in this manner.

Run

To run ponyc from within the container, simply run the ponyc script:

$ docker_ponyc/ponyc --help

Limitations

If you discover any limitations or bugs, please submit a GitHub issue.