Re: [Quantlib-dev] Docker Windows container

[Luigi B. <lui...@gm...>]

Hello Alix,
    I don't have a Windows machine, so I haven't experimented with Docker
Windows containers either.  What you describe should be possible, though:
when I generate wheels for Windows, I do it using a GitHub Actions
workflow, and it's all command lines (see
https://github.com/lballabio/quantlib-wheels/blob/master/.github/workflows/wheels.yml).
The GitHub Action environment has a number of tools already installed, but
in principle the same commands should work in a Docker container.

Luigi


On Tue, Sep 27, 2022 at 4:13 PM Alix Lassauzet <ali...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hi Luigi and QL-community,
>
> I was wondering if someone has already experimented with the generation of
> a QuantLib-Python wheel from a Docker Windows container.
>
> At the moment, from the various work and contributions I found on the web,
> I noticed most of the Docker Linux containers (from ubuntu, alpine, ...),
> but none of them with Windows.
>
> I think it could be very helpful to be able to automate the compilation of
> QuantLib and QuantLib-SWIG/Python on Windows through command lines
> exclusively, and with Docker. I can see several advantages :
> - first, Docker would propose an isolated environment
> - then, we don't necessarily need to install Visual C++ on our machine
> - finally, if the installation relies purely on command lines, this could
> make it as tractable as it is already on Linux
>
> What do you think in terms of feasibility and has anyone already tried
> this approach?
>
> Thanks for your feedbacks,
>
> Alix
>
>
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