frolvlad/alpine-glibc repository overview

⁠Alpine GNU C library (glibc) Docker image

This image is based on Alpine Linux image, which is only a 5MB image, and contains glibc to enable proprietary projects compiled against glibc (e.g. OracleJDK, Anaconda) work on Alpine.

This image includes some quirks to make glibc⁠ work side by side with musl libc (default in Alpine Linux). glibc packages for Alpine Linux are prepared by Sasha Gerrand⁠ and the releases are published in sgerrand/alpine-pkg-glibc⁠ github repo.

If you need to update your libc library cache, use /usr/glibc-compat/sbin/ldconfig instead of the usual /sbin/ldconfig. You can also use the LD_LIBRARY_PATH as on standard libc-based distributions.

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⁠Usage Example

This image is intended to be a base image for your projects, so you may use it like this:

FROM frolvlad/alpine-glibc

COPY ./my_app /usr/local/bin/my_app

$ docker build -t my_app .

There are already several images using this image, so you can refer to them as usage examples:

• frolvlad/alpine-oraclejdk8⁠ (github⁠)
• frolvlad/alpine-mono⁠ (github⁠)
• denoland/deno:alpine⁠ (github⁠)