wwaldner

How to include Ortex in a Docker container?

I am trying to include Ortex in a docker container I am building. First started with Alpine container, and that is a no go. Alpine is going to be problematic because of the musl compiler…

Compiling lib/ortex/native.ex (it's taking more than 10s)
41.10    Compiling ureq v2.9.6
41.61    Compiling ort-sys v2.0.0-rc.8
41.98 error: failed to run custom build command for `ort-sys v2.0.0-rc.8`
41.98
41.98 Caused by:
41.98   process didn't exit successfully: `/app/_build/prod/lib/ortex/native/ortex/release/build/ort-sys-d7347b282fba238c/build-script-build` (exit status: 101)
41.98   --- stdout
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=LIBONNXRUNTIME_NO_PKG_CONFIG
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64-alpine-linux-musl
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_x86_64_alpine_linux_musl
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=LIBONNXRUNTIME_STATIC
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=LIBONNXRUNTIME_DYNAMIC
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_ALL_STATIC
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_ALL_DYNAMIC
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64-alpine-linux-musl
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH_x86_64_alpine_linux_musl
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_PATH
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_PATH
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64-alpine-linux-musl
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR_x86_64_alpine_linux_musl
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_LIBDIR
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64-alpine-linux-musl
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR_x86_64_alpine_linux_musl
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=HOST_PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=PKG_CONFIG_SYSROOT_DIR
41.98   onnxruntime not found using pkg-config, falling back to manual setup.
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=ORT_LIB_LOCATION
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=ORT_LIB_PROFILE
41.98   cargo:rerun-if-env-changed=ORT_PREFER_DYNAMIC_LINK
41.98   selected feature set: none
41.98
41.98   --- stderr
41.98   thread 'main' panicked at /app/.cargo/registry/src/index.crates.io-6f17d22bba15001f/ort-sys-2.0.0-rc.8/build.rs:360:17:
41.98   downloaded binaries not available for target x86_64-alpine-linux-musl
41.98   you may have to compile ONNX Runtime from source
41.98   note: run with `RUST_BACKTRACE=1` environment variable to display a backtrace
41.98 warning: build failed, waiting for other jobs to finish...
42.31
42.31 == Compilation error in file lib/ortex/native.ex ==
42.31 ** (RuntimeError) Rust NIF compile error (rustc exit code 101)
42.31     (rustler 0.35.1) lib/rustler/compiler.ex:36: Rustler.Compiler.compile_crate/3
42.31     lib/ortex/native.ex:11: (module)
42.31 could not compile dependency :ortex, "mix compile" failed. Errors may have been logged above. You can recompile this dependency with "mix deps.compile ortex --force", update it with "mix deps.update ortex" or clean it with "mix deps.clean ortex"

However, when I tried in a Debian container, I did not get much further…

.49 Compiling 6 files (.ex)
34.56 Generated rustler app
34.57 ==> ortex
34.57 Compiling 6 files (.ex)
34.60
34.60 == Compilation error in file lib/ortex/native.ex ==
34.60 ** (ErlangError) Erlang error: :enoent
34.60     (elixir 1.15.8) lib/system.ex:1111: System.cmd("cargo", ["metadata", "--format-version=1"], [cd: "native/ortex"])
34.60     (rustler 0.35.1) lib/rustler/compiler/config.ex:76: Rustler.Compiler.Config.metadata!/1
34.60     (rustler 0.35.1) lib/rustler/compiler/config.ex:63: Rustler.Compiler.Config.build/1
34.60     (rustler 0.35.1) lib/rustler/compiler.ex:8: Rustler.Compiler.compile_crate/3
34.60     lib/ortex/native.ex:11: (module)
34.60 could not compile dependency :ortex, "mix compile" failed. Errors may have been logged above. You can recompile this dependency with "mix deps.compile ortex --force", update it with "mix deps.update ortex" or clean it with "mix deps.clean ortex"
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debian.Dockerfile:226
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2025-01-21 22:56:07 UTC

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D4no0

Have you installed rust in the debian container? The error says that command cargo was not found.

Post #2

dimitarvp

Here are the two lines in my Dockerfiles that make Rust work just fine:

RUN curl --proto '=https' --tlsv1.2 -sSf https://sh.rustup.rs | sh -s -- --default-toolchain stable --profile minimal --target x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu -y

ENV PATH="/root/.cargo/bin:${PATH}"

(Obviously make sure the target is the right one i.e. there are plenty of ARM containers out there.)

The key is to not only install Rust via rustup but also “activate” a toolchain – in this case stable – which is very akin to how version managers like asdf / mise work: you (1) install a tool and (2) make a version active / default.

In the example above the --default-toolchain stable does that, or you can do it manually like so (put this in your Dockerfile after installing rustup and Rust through it):

rustup default stable

Post #5

D4no0

The way you want to usually separate the docker stages is that the first stage compiles and creates a release, and the second one is a clear linux container + runtime dependencies required when you are running the elixir release.

What you are currently doing doesn’t make much sense and I am amazed it works at all.

Post #10