We provide Docker image definitions to simplify managing build environments.
The instructions below assume Docker is installed and is able to run basic hello-world verification. docker-compose command is expected to be available as well.
Clone the Cobalt code repository. The following git command creates a cobalt directory that contains the repository:
$ git clone https://github.com/youtube/cobalt.git $ cd cobalt
The simplest usage is:
docker-compose run <platform>
By default, a debug build will be built, with cobalt as a target. You can override this with an environment variable, e.g.
docker-compose run -e CONFIG=devel -e TARGET=nplb <platform>
where config is one of the four optimization levels, debug, devel, qa and gold, and target is the build target passed to ninja
See Cobalt README for full details.
Builds will be available in your ${COBALT_SRC}/out directory.
We have a separate docker compose file for windows. Use the -f or --file flags to specify a configuration file to use.
docker-compose -f docker-compose-windows.yml run win-win32
To parametrize base operating system images used for the build, pass BASE_OS as an argument to docker-compose as follows:
docker-compose build --build-arg BASE_OS="ubuntu:bionic" base
This parameter is defined in docker/linux/base/Dockerfile and is passed to Docker FROM ... statement.
Available parameters for customizing container execution are:
BASE_OS: passed to base image at build time to select a Debian-based base os image and version. Defaults to Debian 10. ubuntu:bionic and ubuntu:xenial are other tested examples.
PLATFORM: Cobalt build platform, passed to GN
CONFIG: Cobalt build config, passed to GN. Defaults to debug
TARGET: Build target, passed to ninja
The docker-compose.yml contains the currently defined experimental build configurations. Edit or add new service entries as needed, to build custom configurations.
Note: Pre-built images from a public container registry are not yet available.
To debug build issues, enter the shell of the corresponding build container by launching the bash shell, i.e.
docker-compose run linux-x64x11 /bin/bash
and try to build Cobalt with the usual GN / ninja flow.