Poco C++ Backend Starter Dockerfile

Dockerfile

FROM ubuntu

MAINTAINER Maz Jaleel <mazjaleel@gmail.com>

# Install necessary tools to build Poco
RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -yq \
unzip wget build-essential cmake \
openssl libssl-dev \
unixODBC unixODBC-dev odbc-postgresql

# Download and work with Poco develop in the home directory
WORKDIR /home
RUN wget https://github.com/pocoproject/poco/archive/develop.zip && unzip develop.zip

# Configure and build Poco
WORKDIR /home/poco-develop
RUN ./configure --prefix=/usr --omit=Data/MySQL && make -j 4 && make install

# Setup the ODBC config with reasonable Postgres defaults
RUN echo '[defaultdb]\n\
Description         = PostgreSQL connection to DefaultDB\n\
Driver              = PostgreSQL Unicode\n\
Database            = postgres\n\
Servername          = postgres\n\
UserName            = postgres\n\
Password            = \n\
Port                = 5432\n\
Protocol            = 9.4\n\
ReadOnly            = No\n\
RowVersioning       = No\n\
ShowSystemTables    = No\n\
ConnSettings        =\n'\
>> /etc/odbc.ini



# Use bash when launching a container
CMD ["bash"]

Consider improving the configuration files to:

# Copy custom configuration file from the current directory
COPY odbc.ini /etc/odbc.ini