Using docker to compile a binary
Sometimes I have to compile a binary or build a custom package on an old platform or an operating system where I don’t have a compile host available. Docker is a perfect tool for this type of ad-hoc workflow. docker run --rm -it -v $(pwd):/mnt ubuntu:bionic sed -i 's/^# deb-src/deb-src/' /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get update apt-get -y install dpkg-dev libssl-dev # any other dependencies cd apt-get source source-package-here # cd into package and compile/make/build/etc strip resulting_binary cp resulting_binary /mnt exit This mounts the current directory at the /mnt mount point in the container....