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Document How to Set Up a Development Environment with Docker #597
Description
Current Situation
Presently for contributors working on Windows, the test suite does not run successfully. As a result it's hard for developers on Windows to contribute features and fixes. While there may be ways to mitigate this in the future, we should take steps now to ensure a consistent contributor experience regardless of your chosen OS.
Proposed Actions
The easiest way to level the playing field here is to write up documentation and create tools which would allow someone to spin up a development environment inside a docker container.
Work Items
- Make Dockerfile which can spin up a dev env
- Write docs on how to use dev env container
Activity
rmorshea commentedon Feb 16, 2022
I think this may be related to: #657
Archmonger commentedon Apr 15, 2022
The best way of doing this would be using vscode configuration, which would automate the docker setup. Only thing users would need to do is install docker.
On Windows, that also involves enabling Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL).
Archmonger commentedon Jan 25, 2025
Closing as it's unnecessary tooling to maintain. Our tool chain now works cross-platform (win/linux/mac).