Dockerfile for building protoc on Centos 6.6

protoc-artifacts/Dockerfile

+FROM centos:6.6
+
+RUN yum install -y git \
+                   tar \
+                   wget \
+                   make \
+                   autoconf \
+                   curl-devel \
+                   unzip \
+                   automake \
+                   libtool \
+                   glibc-static.i686 \
+                   glibc-devel \
+                   glibc-devel.i686
+
+# Install Java 8
+RUN wget -q --no-cookies --no-check-certificate \
+    --header "Cookie: gpw_e24=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.oracle.com%2F; oraclelicense=accept-securebackup-cookie" "http://download.oracle.com/otn-pub/java/jdk/8u45-b14/jdk-8u45-linux-x64.tar.gz" \
+    -O - | tar xz -C /var/local
+ENV JAVA_HOME /var/local/jdk1.8.0_45
+ENV PATH $JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH
+
+# Install Maven
+RUN wget -q http://apache.cs.utah.edu/maven/maven-3/3.3.3/binaries/apache-maven-3.3.3-bin.tar.gz -O - | \
+    tar xz -C /var/local
+ENV PATH /var/local/apache-maven-3.3.3/bin:$PATH
+
+# Install GCC 4.7 to support -static-libstdc++
+RUN wget http://people.centos.org/tru/devtools-1.1/devtools-1.1.repo -P /etc/yum.repos.d
+RUN bash -c 'echo "enabled=1" >> /etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-1.1.repo'
+RUN bash -c "sed -e 's/\$basearch/i386/g' /etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-1.1.repo > /etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-i386-1.1.repo"
+RUN sed -e 's/testing-/testing-i386-/g' -i /etc/yum.repos.d/devtools-i386-1.1.repo
+RUN yum install -y devtoolset-1.1 \
+                   devtoolset-1.1-libstdc++-devel \
+                   devtoolset-1.1-libstdc++-devel.i686
+
+RUN git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/google/protobuf.git
+
+# Start in devtoolset environment that uses GCC 4.7
+CMD ["scl", "enable", "devtoolset-1.1", "bash"]

protoc-artifacts/README.md

@@ -87,6 +87,23 @@ When you have done deployment for all platforms, go to
 https://oss.sonatype.org/#stagingRepositories, verify that the staging
 repository has all the binaries, close and release this repository.
 
+### Tips for deploying on Linux
+We build on Centos 6.6 to provide a good compatibility for not very new
+systems. We have provided a ``Dockerfile`` under this directory to build the
+environment. It has been tested with Docker 1.6.1.
+
+To build a image:
+```
+$ docker build -t protoc-artifacts .
+```
+
+To run the image:
+```
+$ docker run -it --rm=true protoc-artifacts
+```
+
+The Protobuf repository has been cloned into ``/protobuf``.
+
 ### Tips for deploying on Windows
 Under Windows the following error may occur: ``gpg: cannot open tty `no tty':
 No such file or directory``. This can be fixed by configuring gpg through an
@@ -118,7 +135,9 @@ stored:
 
 ### Tested build environments
 We have succesfully built artifacts on the following environments:
-- Linux x86_32 and x86_64: Ubuntu 14.04.2 64-bit
+- Linux x86_32 and x86_64:
+ - Centos 6.6 (within Docker 1.6.1)
+ - Ubuntu 14.04.2 64-bit
 - Windows x86_32: MSYS with ``mingw32-gcc-g++ 4.8.1-4`` on Windows 7 64-bit
 - Windows x86_64: Cygwin64 with ``mingw64-x86_64-gcc-g++ 4.8.3-1`` on Windows 7 64-bit
 - Mac OS X x86_32 and x86_64: Mac OS X 10.9.5