Godot engine build containers

This repository contains the Dockerfiles for the official Godot engine builds. These containers should help you build Godot for all platforms supported on any machine that can run Docker containers.

The in-container build scripts are in a separate repository: https://github.com/godotengine/godot-build-scripts

Introduction

These scripts build a number of containers which are then used to build final Godot tools, templates and server packages for several platforms.

Once these containers are built, they can be used to compile different Godot versions without the need of recreating them.

The upload.sh file is meant to be used by Godot Release Team and is not documented here.

Requirements

These containers have been tested under Fedora 36 (other distros/releases may work too).

The tool used to build and manage the containers is podman (install it with dnf -y podman).

We currently use podman as root to build and use these containers. Documenting a workflow to configure the host OS to be able to do all this without root would be welcome (but back when we tried we ran into performance issues).

Usage

The build.sh script included is used to build the containers themselves.

The two arguments can take any value and are meant to convey what Godot branch you are building for (e.g. 4.x) and what Linux distribution the Dockerfile.base is based on (e.g. f39 for Fedora 39).

Run the command using:

./build.sh 4.x f39

The above will generate images using the tag '4.x-f39'. You can then specify it in the build.sh of godot-build-scripts.

Selecting which images to build

If you don't need to build all versions or you want to try with a single target OS first, you can comment out the corresponding lines from the script:

podman_build linux
podman_build windows
podman_build web
podman_build android
...

Image sizes

These are the expected container image sizes, so you can plan your disk usage in advance:

REPOSITORY                         TAG                SIZE
localhost/godot-fedora             4.x-f39            1.20 GB
localhost/godot-linux              4.x-f39            3.00 GB
localhost/godot-windows            4.x-f39            2.02 GB
localhost/godot-web                4.x-f39            2.42 GB
localhost/godot-android            4.x-f39            4.48 GB
localhost/godot-osx                4.x-f39            4.94 GB
localhost/godot-ios                4.x-f39            5.68 GB

In addition to this, generating containers will also require some host disk space (up to 10 GB) for the dependencies (Xcode).

Toolchains

These are the toolchains currently in use for Godot 4.2 and later:

Base image: Fedora 39
SCons: 4.6.0
Linux: GCC 13.2.0 built against glibc 2.28, binutils 2.40, from our own Linux SDK
Windows: MinGW 11.0.0, GCC 13.2.1, binutils 2.40
Web: Emscripten 3.1.53
Android: Android NDK 23.2.8568313, build-tools 34.0.0, platform android-34, CMake 3.22.1, JDK 17
macOS: Xcode 15.2 with Apple Clang (LLVM 16.0.0), MacOSX SDK 14.2
iOS: Xcode 15.2 with Apple Clang (LLVM 16.0.0), iPhoneOS SDK 17.2

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