This repository contains a submodule and the relevant Dockerfile container images to pre-build a functioning compilation environment on Linux with Docker or podman.

These images are available on Docker Hub.

Note: these commands run the same with podman 3.0.1 or newer; just replace docker for podman

1. Clone this repository with submodules.

git clone --recurse-submodules [email protected]:slic3r/build-containers.git

2. Copy slic3r/deps to the directory of the container you want to build.

cp -R slic3r/deps appimage-base/slic3r/deps

3. Build the container.

docker build -t slic3r-appimage-base appimage-base

4. Start the container in interactive mode, mounting the /build directory and /source to a suitable output directory and where the Slic3r source code is checked out.

docker run --rm -it -v /build:/path/to/build/output -v /source:/path/to/Slic3r/source slic3r-appimage-base

5. In the container, run cmake to configure the build directory and start the build. You can pass higher numbers to -j to build in more parallel workers.

cmake -DCMAKE_PREFIX_PATH=${1}/usr/local -DSLIC3R_STATIC=1 /source
make -j4 Slic3r

• docker.io/slic3r/slic3r-appimage-build
  • Prebuilt dependencies on Ubuntu Bionic (18.04 LTS)
  • Suitable for static linking for Slic3r builds.
  • Dependencies are located in /opt/dependencies/usr/local prefix for CMake.
• docker.io/slic3r/ubuntu-build
  • Suitable for building dynamically-linked dependencies for Slic3r on Debian (stable/testing/sid)
• docker.io/slic3r/debian-build
  • Suitable for building dynamically-linked dependencies for Slic3r on Debian (stable/testing/sid)
• docker.io/slic3r/fedora-build
  • Fedora-based container with Slic3r dependencies installed from pacakge manager.
  • Suitable for building dynamically-linked dependencies for Slic3r on Fedora.