Swedish Embedded Workstation

This is a complete embedded firmware development workstation based on Linux.

• Base Image (ci-base): contains only the minimal set of software needed for basic development without the toolchains.
• CI Image (ci): contains toolchains, the zephyr sdk and additional packages needed for ci operations.
• Developer Image (zephyr-build): includes additional tools that can be useful for Zephyr development.
• Workstation: a fully integrated development environment with tools for building additional documentation, emacs, vim etc.

See Documentation for more detailed documentation.

It includes:

• Zephyr RTOS base tools included as official Zephyr RTOS docker image
• Docker images: 2 main docker images for CI builds and develop builds.
• Local bootstrapping scripts
• Tmux configuration
• i3wm configuration
• Vim configuration (see Awesome Vim article)

Quick Start

docker pull swedishembedded/build:latest

Docker Compose

---
version: '3'
services:
  sts:
    image: swedishembedded/workstation:latest
    container_name: sts
    stdin_open: true
    environment:
      - TERM
      - DISPLAY
    network_mode: host
    volumes:
      - ~/.ssh/:/home/user/.ssh

To start a shell in the newly created environment run:

docker-compose up -d
docker exec -ti sts bash

Contact

• Community: https://swedishembedded.com/community

docker run -ti -v $HOME/Work/zephyrproject:/workdir \
           docker.io/zephyrprojectrtos/zephyr-build:latest

Building Developer Docker Image

The developer docker image can be built using the following command:

docker build -f Dockerfile.devel --build-arg UID=$(id -u) --build-arg GID=$(id -g) -t zephyr-build:v<tag> .

It can be used for building Zephyr samples and tests by mounting the Zephyr workspace into it:

docker run -ti -v <path to zephyr workspace>:/workdir zephyr-build:v<tag>

Usage

Building a sample application

Follow the steps below to build and run a sample application:

west build -b qemu_x86 samples/hello_world
west build -t run

Building display sample applications

It is possible to build and run the native POSIX sample applications that produce display outputs by connecting to the Docker instance using a VNC client.

In order to allow the VNC client to connect to the Docker instance, the port 5900 needs to be forwarded to the host:

docker run -ti -p 5900:5900 -v <path to zephyr workspace>:/workdir zephyr-build:v<tag>

Follow the steps below to build a display sample application for the native POSIX board:

west build -b native_posix samples/subsys/display/cfb
west build -t run

The application display output can be observed by connecting a VNC client to localhost at the port 5900. The default VNC password is zephyr.

On a Ubuntu host, this can be done by running the following command:

vncviewer localhost:5900