C++ DevBox

A Docker development box for C/C++.

What is this?

This is a Docker container based on Debian Linux (see Dockerfile). It sets up a C++ development environment for Visual Studio Code. The pre-installed tools include: cppcheck, x, y.

What is pre-installed?

Base: Debian 12 - Bookworm

On top of the base image the following tools are installed:

zsh, git, nano, jq
curl, wget
cppcheck, valgrind, ccache
CMake
vcpkg

The following C/C++ compilers and their toolchains are available:

LLVM v16
GCC v12

Prerequisites

You need the following things to run this:

Docker
Visual Studio Code

How to run this?

There are two ways of setting the container up.

Either by building the container image locally or by fetching the prebuild container image from the Github container registry.

Building the Container Image locally using VSCode

Get the source: clone this repository using git or download the zip
In VSCode open the folder in a container (Remote Containers: Open Folder in Container):

This will build the container image (Starting Dev Container (show log): Building image..)

Which takes a while...

Then, finally...
Enjoy! 😎

Fetching the prebuild container image

This container image is published to the Github Container Registry (GHCR).

You may find the package here: https://github.com/jakoch/cpp-devbox/pkgs/container/cpp-devbox.

You can install the container image from the command line:

docker pull ghcr.io/jakoch/cpp-devbox:latest

You might also use this container image as a base image in your own Dockerfile:

FROM ghcr.io/jakoch/cpp-devbox:latest