Re: Feedback on how to run a Desktop Gambas Application into a Docker container

[Fabien Bodard <gambas.fr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Le jeu. 21 août 2025 à 01:58, Linus <olivier.cruilles@xxxxxxxx> a écrit :

> Hello all,
>
> Like previously the feedback about how to run a Gambas Web Application
> into a Docker container,
> today is the turn of how to run a Gambas Desktop Application.
>
> The main differences are:
> - the command line executed into the Docker Container for a Gambas Desktop
> Application
> is the *.gambas executable itself rather than the Web Server process in
> the case of a Gambas Web Application.
> - The options used in the command line to start the Docker Container
>
> You will find here a little video showing how to start a Gambas Desktop
> Application into a Docker Container + the Gambas demo Project + the Docker
> project to build the Docker Image of the Gambas Desktop Application
>
> Docker_Gambas_Desktop_Application
> <https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1D6Q8bsilYRq4RKcybVl6pEyUOTD-dOt0?usp=sharing>
>
>
> Here is an example of the Docker command line to start a Graphic
> Application
>
> xhost +local:docker ; \
> docker run -it --name calculateurdegrade \
> --privileged \
> --net=host \
> --env="NVIDIA_DRIVER_CAPABILITIES=all" \
> --env="DISPLAY=$DISPLAY" \
> --env="QT_X11_NO_MITSHM=1" \
> --volume="/tmp/.X11-unix:/tmp/.X11" \
> calculateurdegrade:202508
>
>
> The only bad point on this kind of solution to embedded a Gambas Desktop
> Application, is the size of the Docker Image produced (in this example
> 746MB)
>

It is a quite normal size for an application that embed all the needed
libraries for a


> but the size does not affect at all the time to start the application,
> that’s the magie of Docker...
>
> In the end the Docker Image can run the Application on any Linux
> distribution because all the necessary for the Graphic Application is
> inside the Docker Container.
>
>
> I hope this project will interest/help someone
>
>
> Olivier Cruilles
>
>
>
>
>
> Fabien Bodard