Docker build

.vscode/tasks.json

@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+{
+    // See https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=733558
+    // for the documentation about the tasks.json format
+    "version": "2.0.0",
+    "tasks": [
+        {
+            "label": "compile with debug in docker",
+            "type": "shell",
+            "command": "mkdir -p ${workspaceFolder}/build; docker run --rm --privileged -v ${workspaceFolder}:/root/MrsWatson mrswatson_docker:latest bash -c \"cd ~/MrsWatson/build; cmake -D CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Debug .. &&  make\"",
+            "group": {
+                "kind": "build",
+                "isDefault": true
+            },
+            "problemMatcher": {
+                "owner": "cpp",
+                "fileLocation": [
+                    "relative",
+                    "${workspaceFolder}"
+                ],
+                "pattern": {
+                    "regexp": "^(.*):(\\d+):(\\d+):\\s+(warning|error):\\s+(.*)$",
+                    "file": 1,
+                    "line": 2,
+                    "column": 3,
+                    "severity": 4,
+                    "message": 5
+                }
+            }
+        },
+        {
+            "label": "build a docker image",
+            "type": "shell",
+            "command": "docker build --pull --rm -f \"Dockerfile\" -t mrswatson_docker:latest \".\"",
+            "group": {
+                "kind": "build",
+                "isDefault": true
+            },
+            "problemMatcher": {
+                "owner": "cpp",
+                "fileLocation": [
+                    "relative",
+                    "${workspaceFolder}"
+                ],
+                "pattern": {
+                    "regexp": "^(.*):(\\d+):(\\d+):\\s+(warning|error):\\s+(.*)$",
+                    "file": 1,
+                    "line": 2,
+                    "column": 3,
+                    "severity": 4,
+                    "message": 5
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    ]
+}

BUILDING.md

@@ -115,6 +115,8 @@ building on Linux should be a simple matter of:
     make
     make install
 
+There is a Dockerfile in the root directory that you can use to build a linux image with all necessary tools installed. If you use VSCode, in .vscode directory there are pre-configured tasks for building the image and both 32 and 64-bit linux versions of the application in a container.
+
 
 [homebrew]: http://brew.sh
 [cmake]: http://www.cmake.org/download/

Dockerfile

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+FROM ubuntu:18.04
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y gcc g++ gdb gdbserver make cmake g++-multilib libc6-dev libc6-dev-i386 libx11-dev
+RUN echo "set auto-load safe-path /" >> /root/.gdbinit

test/unit/ApplicationRunner.c

@@ -34,7 +34,9 @@
 #include <stdio.h>
 
 static const char *kApplicationRunnerOutputFolder = "out";
+#if WINDOWS
 static const int kApplicationRunnerWaitTimeoutInMs = 1000;
+#endif
 
 CharString buildTestArgumentString(const char *arguments, ...) {
   CharString formattedArguments;