Hi Pierce,

Cross posting my answer from VM to here, sorry for the duplicate.��

This is very interesting. I have been playing with docker too [1] [2] [3]�� and indeed I also tried to make it work with alpine [4]. But it was complicated because alpine doesn't come with `glibc` but instead `musl`. And there are differences between them. So for example for VA Smalltalk I had to install `glibc`. I succeeded but the final size of the docker image with alpine��+ glibc was almost the same size as the debian lite... so it didn't make much sense to me.��

The support for glic is not official and as you can see I reported it [5]

Anyway, I will be curious to know your progress. Would cog VM work correctly with musl instead of glibc?��

Best,��

[1]��https://dev.to/martinezpeck/getting-started-with-docker-and-smalltalk-4po1
[2]��https://dev.to/martinezpeck/step-2-single-node-docker-swarm-and-smalltalk-46i0
[3]��https://dev.to/martinezpeck/docker-swarm-cloud-on-a-arm64-diy-sbc-cluster-running-a-smalltalk-webapp-9l1��

[4]��https://github.com/vasmalltalk/docker-examples/blob/master/source/SeasideTrafficLights/Raspberry/experiments/alpine-raspbian_Dockerfile

[5]��https://github.com/sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc/issues/113

On Sat, Jul 20, 2019 at 5:39 AM Pierce Ng <pierce@samadhiweb.com> wrote:

Hi all,

I've written a blog post on the topic.

�� https://www.samadhiweb.com/blog/2019.07.20.alpine.pharo.minimal.html

TL;DR:

- Built pharo.cog.spur.minheadless on Alpine Linux.

- Built Docker image of same: 12.5MB.

- Using 7-minimal as base, built a stateless Pharo image with SUnit and
�� SQLite: ~16MB.

- Ran the SQLite unit tests from the command line using said
�� image statelessly.

- Built Docker image of Alpine Pharo VM and a/m SQLite Pharo image: 46.8MB.

- Ran said Docker image which ran the SQLite unit tests.

Pierce