Re: Dev workflow in Emacs with containers

[Leo Butler <Leo.Butler@umanitoba.ca>]

On Sat, Nov 30 2024, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 29 Nov 2024 at 21:41, Sébastien Gendre <seb@k-7.ch> wrote:
>
>> Emacs provide some great tools to integrate with the dev workflow:
>>
>> These tools are great when the complied/tested/debugged/run software is
>> local. But I use more and more the containers. Even for micro-controller
>> firmware dev.
>>
>> My questions are:
>>
>> What are your experience with using Emacs, the tools cited above and
>> containers ?
>
> Emacs integrates excellently with containerized tools.
>
>> Do you use a `.dir-locals.el` to set the commands run by Emacs to
>> debugg/compile/etc ? Or do you use a Makefile with pre-defined targets
>> for test, debug, build, etc ?
>
> 1. I have a Dockerfile or several that describes the build
> environment. If necessary, a different one that describes the
> runtime/debugging environment.
>
> 2. I have a docker-compose.yml which utilizes the image(s) built from
> Dockerfile(s) of step 1, and mounts the source tree, the build
> directory, etc into service containers. The compose file also arranges
> for the services to run as my user ID so that I don’t get root-owned
> files in my build tree.
>
> The purpose of the compose file is to remember all the docker run
> options for me so that I don’t have to specify them every time. I
> could alternatively use shell scripts.
>
> 3. I also have a Makefile that encapsulates the build logic. In some
> targets, it arranges for itself to execute in a service container
> (with a different target). The purpose of the Makefile is that I could
> run it either from Emacs or from local shell if I so desire.
>
> 4. .dir-locals.el to tell Emacs to use ‘docker-compose run --rm
> runtime gdb’ as my debugger and ‘docker-compose run --rm builder
> clangd’ as my language server, and ‘make build test’ as my compile
> command.

Yuri, would you be willing to share the stuff you mention?

TIA,
Leo

>
>> How do you manage when Emacs highlight a link to a file, but the
>> obtained path correspond to the container file system while Emacs can
>> access this file from the host file system ?
>
> Where practical, I prefer to mount my volumes at the same paths in the
> container as locally, this simplifies the mapping a lot. But in some
> cases I hook ‘compilation-filter’ to a function that replaces
> prefixes.