Zig Lang Dockerfile

I had some issues tunning Zig in my Windows machine, so I decided to create a Docker image with the latest build from Zig git. You can find more information about it here.

1. The zig version is 0.6.0 (for the latest container).
2. The image is based on alpine:latest, so you can use it as it. The first versions were using ubuntu:bionic tho.

It has the zig binary compiled and added to PATH so you can just run zig globally.

Build

If you want to build it locally, you can clone this repo and then run the build command:

• docker build -t zig -f Dockerfile.zig .

If you prefer to use the latest generated image from Docker Hub (is generated based on the Dockerfile.zig) in this repo:

• docker pull tarasyarema/zig:latest

Usage

Imagine you have a example.zig file with the following contents

const warn = @import("std").debug.warn;

pub fn main() void {
   warn("Hey from a container :3\n", .{});
}

You could create a container (i.e. a Dockerfile) to run this file inside it:

FROM tarasyarema/zig:latest

WORKDIR /src

COPY ./example.zig .

RUN zig build-exe example.zig

CMD ./example

Then you could run

$ docker build -t zig-example -f Dockerfile .
...
$ docker run zig-test
Hey from a container :3

You can find this example in the examples folder.

Todo

• Make tagged builds, so you can just pull the version you want from Docker Hub.