Remote Development Environment for CLion

Warning: Development continues in invasy/dev-env repository.

Toolchain

clang/llvm 13
CMake 3.20.5
ninja 1.10.2
GNU Make 4.2.1
GNU Debugger (gdb) with gdbserver 9.2
rsync 3.1.3
OpenSSH server 8.2p1
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa)

Note: CMake versions 3.21. are not supported by CLion versions up to 2021.2..

Usage

Run service (container).
Set up CLion toolchain.
Build, run, debug your project in the container.

Run container

docker run -d --cap-add=sys_admin --name=clang_remote -p 127.0.0.1:22001:22 invasy/clang-remote:latest

or from git repository:

docker-compose up -d

CLion Configuration

Toolchains

Name: clang-remote
Credentials: see SSH Configurations below
CMake: /usr/local/bin/cmake
Make: /usr/local/bin/ninja (see also CMake below)
C Compiler: /usr/bin/clang-13 (should be detected)
C++ Compiler: /usr/bin/clang++-13 (should be detected)
Debugger: /usr/bin/gdb (should be detected)

SSH Configurations

Host: 127.0.0.1
Port: 22001
Authentication type: Password
User name: builder
Password: builder

CMake

Profiles:
- Debug (or any other profile):
  - CMake options: -G Ninja

SSH

Configuration

# ~/.ssh/config
Host clang-remote
User builder
HostName 127.0.0.1
Port 22001
HostKeyAlias clang-remote
StrictHostKeyChecking no
NoHostAuthenticationForLocalhost yes
PreferredAuthentications password
PasswordAuthentication yes
PubkeyAuthentication no

Remove old host key from ~/.ssh/known_hosts after image rebuilding (note HostKeyAlias in config above):

ssh-keygen -f "$HOME/.ssh/known_hosts" -R "clang-remote"

Connection

ssh clang-remote

Password: builder