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Dockerfiles for reproducible builds

This folder contains a set of Dockerfiles for Intel® ISPC builds, which serve as:

  1. Examples for setting up development environment in different OSes.
  2. Actual Dockerfiles used in Github Actions CI.
  3. Archive of Dockerfiles used for building specific ispc versions.

Development builds

CentOS, Fedora and Ubuntu Dockerfiless serve dual purpose - as examples for setting up an environment for building ispc and as integral parts of CI. This means that while we strive for maximum coverage for different OSes, some of the files might be outdated.

Note that adding all of these Dockerfiles to regular CI runs is currently problematic for a couple of reasons:

  • We currently use Github Actions shared runners, which have 6 hours job limit. This is approximately the time required to do LLVM self-build, which we do as part of ispc build. This means it's hard to get this kind of jobs reliably passing using shared runners.
  • Dockerfiles tend to break from time to time due to changes in the base images and package managers updates. And we don't always have time to maintains it. Contributions are welcome - feel free to submit a PR with the distro you care about or fix an existing Dockerfile.

By default Dockerfiles are assumed to be built as x86 images, but some can be built as aarch64 images (note that ispc is a cross-compiler, so regardless the host arch, it can target any supported CPU architecuture, if it's enabled in ispc build).

XPU-enabled builds

The term XPU means going beyond CPU (so it is really xPU, where "x" refers to "anything"). With respect to current state of ispc, XPU means Intel® GPU support in addition to CPU targets.

When working on XPU-enabled ispc builds, it's highly encouraged to do the development using Dockerfiles as it requires having multiple parts of GPU software stack with the right versions. Failing to get the right versions of all components is the easiest way to get the broken build. The recommended OS to work on XPU-enabled build is Ubuntu 20.04 and later. The Dockerfile, which has fully functional GPU environment is here: ubuntu/xpu_ispc_build/Dockerfile. It's regularly updated with the latest recommended component versions.

Here's how to build and run XPU-enabled docker image:

cd docker/ubuntu/xpu_ispc_build
docker build -t ispc_xpu_env:latest .
docker run -it --device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri --cap-add=SYS_PTRACE --security-opt seccomp=unconfined -v $HOME:$HOME ispc_xpu_env:latest /bin/bash

Docker switches used in the command line above are:

  • --device=/dev/dri:/dev/dri is required to share GPU device between the host and the container.
  • --cap-add=SYS_PTRACE --security-opt seccomp=unconfined allows using gdb inside the container, so it's not needed if you are not going to debug in Docker.
  • -v $HOME:$HOME shares your home directory between the host and the container, so it's handy for development inside the container.

Release builds

The folders corresponding to Intel® ISPC versions, contain Dockerfiles that were used for building Linux binary artifacts available on Github Releases.

Note, that we stick to building ispc binary in the environment with the oldest available glibc, so the resulting binary is functional on all actual Linux distributions. So, most of released binaries are built using CentOS 7.