And I should read the thread to the bottom :-). That docker script looks
great. Will hack away at it.
Mark Roddy
On Wed, Jun 27, 2018 at 2:20 PM Mark Roddy wrote:
> I looked at the EWDK as a starting point for a containerized build
> solution and gave up because it was just too huge to be a viable container
> image and there appears to be no reasonable way to get docker containers to
> use network share mount points. A msft supported docker image for each
> released wdk with reasonable size would be a huge win from my perspective.
>
> Mark Roddy
>
>
> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 10:15 AM xxxxx@osr.com
> wrote:
>
>> (For those who may not be familiar with Mr. Lichtenberg… he’s the dev
>> lead for the WDK and related tools, and a LONG time friend of the driver
>> development community).
>>
>> Thank you, Mr. Lichtenberg, for jumping into the conversation. Your help
>> and insight is always appreciated.
>>
>>
>>
>> Honestly… the problem is that it’s very hard to narrow down. “Back
>> in the day” we might have had a driver and a (native) C/C++ test app in one
>> solution and that’s it. THESE days, that test app MIGHT be C/C++, or it
>> might equally be written in C#, or there could be a service in the Solution
>> (in C/C++ or C#), or it might be some UWP management app (OK, not really
>> the last of those… but someday, maybe).
>>
>> We could be convinced to build the user-mode parts separately (as a
>> separate Solution)… but we still have to build both parts (the driver
>> Solution and the UM Solution) as part of our CI process. So, bottom line,
>> we need to have a full-blown VS (to accommodate the various user-mode
>> options) and the driver part.
>>
>>
>>
>> That’s good news.
>>
>> One approach might be to (a) ship along with the WDK the pieces/parts
>> that are needed to ensure that tools work on Windows Server, (b) provide a
>> container with VS Community and the WDK pre-installed. Extra points for
>> having such a container on Docker Hub. How cool would THAT be??
>>
>> ANYhow… We still plan to give this a try, and see how it works.
>>
>> AND I hope there are others in the community who have tried this, and
>> can share the details of their experiences.
>>
>> Regardless, as I said, we’ll write-up whatever we come up with to help
>> those who come after us.
>>
>> Peter
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>> @OSRDrivers
>>
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