Is there an image on dockerhub that is able to run make?

Question

When one searches for make on dockerhub multiple images are returned, but none of them seems to be able to run make.

Answer 1

GNU make can be found in the gcc container.

Compile your app inside the Docker container There may be occasions where it is not appropriate to run your app inside a container. To compile, but not run your app inside the Docker instance, you can write something like:

$ docker run --rm -v "$PWD":/usr/src/myapp -w /usr/src/myapp gcc:4.9 gcc -o myapp myapp.c

This will add your current directory, as a volume, to the container, set the working directory to the volume, and run the command gcc -o myapp myapp.c. This tells gcc to compile the code in myapp.c and output the executable to myapp. Alternatively, if you have a Makefile, you can instead run the make command inside your container

Answer 2

Depending on what language you want to build with, you can try some of these containers:

• Python: lambci/lambda:build-python3.6
• Nodejs: amaysim/serverless:1.23.0
• Golang: amaysim/golang:1.8.3

Answer 3

In my opinion there shouldn't be an image to run make, because if you want to build something from source you should install the dependencies and configure before run make, so I think it is just a command and you don't need an image to install it, even make is not a service to be in separate image, it must be used in Dockerfile to help you building your service from source during the image build time and not create a specific image for it.