Docker SolveSpace

This repo provides a way to run SolveSpace without installing it natively on one's machine.

Requirements

• Docker

For running on macOS as a GUI

To run SolveSpace from within Docker, on macOS, you need an X11 host.

Installing XQuartz on macOS...

• Download and install from xquartz.org (version 2.8.1 or later)

• Launch XQuartz

• Preferences > Security > enable Allow connections from network clients

  Now your Mac will be listening on port 6000 for X11 connections.

  Note: You can close the xterm window that opens. Don't need it.

• Quit and restart XQuartz (needed for the setting to take effect)

• In a macOS terminal:

  $ xhost + localhost
  localhost being added to access control list
  

These instructions were based on:

• To forward X11 from inside a docker container to a host running macOS (gist, 2017)

Getting started

$ git submodule update

That populates the solvespace.sub subpackage, holding the sources.

$ ./build.sh
...
 => => naming to docker.io/library/solvespace

You now have a solvespace Docker image (~780MB) that can run the SolveSpace GUI application.

Launching

Windows + WSL2 + WSLg

Once WSLg (GitHub) is out, by the end of 2021, you can run Linux GUI programs in Windows 10, seamlessly.

PENDING... for WSLg public release.

macOS

$ docker run -it --rm -v`pwd`:/work solvespace

Alternatives

The author is not aware of other SolveSpace Docker images.

References

• How to show X11 windows with Docker on Mac (blog, Oct 2017)