docker-mplabx

MPLABX: the MPLAB X Integrated Development Environment docker container.

Build

To create the image bbinet/mplabx, execute the following command in the docker-mplabx folder:

docker build -t bbinet/mplabx .

You can now push the new image to the public registry:

docker push bbinet/mplabx

Run

Then, when starting your mplabx container, you will want to share the X11 socket file as a volume so that the MPLAB X windows can be displayed on your Xorg server. You may also need to run command xhost + on the host.

$ docker pull bbinet/mplabx

$ docker run -it --name mplabx \
    -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
    -v /path/to/mplab/projects:/path/to/mplab/projects \
    -e DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY \
    bbinet/mplabx

In order to program PIC microcontrollers, the mplabx container need to connect to the USB PIC programmer, so you may want to give it access to your USB devices with:

$ docker run -it --name mplabx \
    --privileged \
    -v /dev/bus/usb:/dev/bus/usb \
    -v /tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11-unix \
    -v /path/to/mplab/projects:/path/to/mplab/projects \
    -e DISPLAY=unix$DISPLAY \
    bbinet/mplabx