Compiling ScummVM/Docker

NOTE

This page is still a draft, and lacks a lot of detail.

Compiling ScummVM using Docker

The ScummVM buildbot uses Docker for building the toolchains. As such, this makes it possible for the individual toolchains to be used for local builds, avoiding the need to install the toolchain and required libraries manually.

The following toolchain images are available:

toolchains/amigaos4
toolchains/android
toolchains/caanoo
toolchains/devkit3ds
toolchains/devkitnds
toolchains/devkitppc
toolchains/devkitswitch
toolchains/dreamcast
toolchains/gcw0
toolchains/iphone
toolchains/macosx-arm64
toolchains/macosx-i386
toolchains/macosx-x86_64
toolchains/mxe
toolchains/open2x
toolchains/opendingux
toolchains/openpandora
toolchains/ps3
toolchains/psp
toolchains/raspberrypi
toolchains/riscos
toolchains/vita

Installing the needed packages

Debian-based distributions

The following should install all the necessary packages:

apt-get install docker.io git make m4 acl

Getting the source

Open a Terminal and type:

git clone https://github.com/scummvm/scummvm.git
git clone https://github.com/scummvm/dockerized-bb.git

Getting the docker images

To fetch a toolchain image from the Docker Hub, issue the following command inside the dockerized-bb folder:

make <toolchain>/pull

where <toolchain> is the name of the toolchain you want to use. The following command can be used to fetch all toolchains at once:

make pull-toolchains

Using the docker images

To fetch a toolchain image from the Docker Hub, issue the following command:

docker run -v <path-to-scummvm>:/data/scummvm -w /data/scummvm -it <toolchain> /bin/bash

where <toolchain> is the name of the toolchain you want to use, and <path-to-scummvm> is the path to the scummvm folder. This will mount the scummvm folder in the Docker image and launch a shell that can be used to build ScummVM for the relevant platform. Once done, the exit command can be used to leave the Docker image.

For more details on how to build ScummVM for a given platform, see the relevant page from Compiling ScummVM.