Build SOF with Docker¶

This guide will show you how to use a Docker image containing the Sound Open Firmware build environment.

Set up the workspace directory ¶

Point the $SOF_WORKSPACE environment variable to the directory in which you store all SOF work.
```
SOF_WORKSPACE=~/work/sof
mkdir -p "$SOF_WORKSPACE"
```

Clone the SOF repository.

cd "$SOF_WORKSPACE"
git clone --recurse-submodules https://github.com/thesofproject/sof.git

Set up Docker ¶

Docker is a popular container management framework. To install Docker and get the Docker image with the SOF build environment:

Install Docker.

For information on how to install Docker on Ubuntu, visit Install Docker Engine on Ubuntu.

For information on how to install Docker on other Linux distributions, visit Install Docker Engine.
Optionally, configure Docker to run under a proxy.

For more information about configuring Docker to use a proxy, visit HTTP/HTTPS proxy.
To use Docker without sudo, add your user to the docker group.

For more information, visit Post-installation steps for Linux.
Get a Docker image with the SOF build environment.

To easily build SOF binaries, we need a Docker image containing all of the cross-compiler and build environment dependencies. Get the Docker image by using one of the following options:
- Option 1. Pull the Docker image from Docker Hub and retag the image with sof for scripts:
```
docker pull thesofproject/sof
docker tag thesofproject/sof sof
```
  Note
  
  Since there is not yet an offical Sound Open Firmware presence on Dockerhub, the image is hosted in a personal Docker Hub repo until the official image can go live.
- Option 2. Build a Docker image:
  
  Note
  
  Building the container from DockerFile takes more than two hours, so we recommend using the pre-built image (Option 1).
  
  Run the Docker build from the SOF repository.
```
cd "${SOF_WORKSPACE}"/sof/scripts/docker_build/sof_qemu
./docker-build.sh
cd "${SOF_WORKSPACE}"/sof/scripts/docker_build/sof_builder
./docker-build.sh
```
  Verify that the docker image is built successfully.
```
docker images

#REPOSITORY             TAG                 IMAGE ID            CREATED             SIZE
#sof                    latest              c8b0e8913fcb        2 days ago          1.46 GB
```

Build firmware binaries with Docker ¶

Build with scripts ¶

To build the SOF binaries for all platforms:

cd "${SOF_WORKSPACE}"/sof/
./scripts/docker-run.sh ./scripts/xtensa-build-all.sh -a

./scripts/docker-run.sh mounts the sof and directories into the Docker container and builds them inside the container. You can access the build result outside the container after the build.

To build the SOF binaries for one or more platforms:

cd "${SOF_WORKSPACE}"/sof/
# Bay Trail
./scripts/docker-run.sh ./scripts/xtensa-build-all.sh byt
# Bay Trail and Apollo Lake
./scripts/docker-run.sh ./scripts/xtensa-build-all.sh byt apl

Build inside container ¶

Enter the container bash:

cd "${SOF_WORKSPACE}"/sof/
./scripts/docker-run.sh bash

From inside the container, follow the manual configuration and build steps. For more information, see Step 4. Build and sign firmware binaries.

Firmware build results ¶

The firmware binary files are located in the build_<platform>/src/arch/xtensa/ directory. Copy them to the /lib/firmware/intel/sof directory on the target machine.

sof-apl.ri  sof-bdw.ri  sof-byt.ri  sof-cht.ri  sof-cnl.ri  sof-hsw.ri

Build topology and tools with Docker ¶

Build with scripts ¶

Build the SOF tools and topology files.

cd "${SOF_WORKSPACE}"/sof/
./scripts/docker-run.sh ./scripts/build-tools.sh

Build inside container ¶

Enter the container bash:

cd "${SOF_WORKSPACE}"/sof/
./scripts/docker-run.sh bash

From inside the container, change to the tools directory and follow the manual configuration and build steps. For more information, see Step 5. Build topology and tools.

Topology and tools build results ¶

The topology files are located in the "$SOF_WORKSPACE"/sof/tools/build_tools/topology folder. Copy the files to the /lib/firmware/intel/sof-tplg directory on the target machine.

The sof-logger tool is located in the tools/logger directory. Copy it to the /usr/bin directory on the target machine.