Valgrind Docker Image

A simple Docker image with Valgrind and the essential build tools like gcc, make, and libc6-dev.

Test files

To play around with the examples, you can use the Makefile and the stuff in test_files. See below.

Run it

Here's an example.

$ docker run -v $HOME:$HOME mooreryan/valgrind --leak-check=full ~/scripts/c/macro_test_linux

Compiling your program first

If you're on a Mac and want to use this, you need to first compile your program so that it will run inside the docker.

Using gcc

First, use the Docker image to compile the program.

$ docker run --workdir $HOME --entrypoint gcc -v $PWD:$HOME mooreryan/valgrind -Wall -g -o test_files/apple test_files/apple.c

Then run valgrind on it!

$ docker run --workdir $HOME -v $PWD:$HOME mooreryan/valgrind --leak-check=full test_files/apple

==1== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==1== Copyright (C) 2002-2015, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==1== Using Valgrind-3.12.0.SVN and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==1== Command: test_files/apple
==1==
apple == apple
==1==
==1== HEAP SUMMARY:
==1==     in use at exit: 0 bytes in 0 blocks
==1==   total heap usage: 2 allocs, 2 frees, 4,102 bytes allocated
==1==
==1== All heap blocks were freed -- no leaks are possible
==1==
==1== For counts of detected and suppressed errors, rerun with: -v
==1== ERROR SUMMARY: 0 errors from 0 contexts (suppressed: 0 from 0)

That's it!

Using a Makefile.

If you have a project and you want to be a little fancy, try using make.

Here is an example Makefile

CFLAGS = -Wall -g

THIS_DIR = $(dir $(realpath $(firstword $(MAKEFILE_LIST))))

SRC = test_files
BIN = $(SRC)/bin

.PHONY: clean apple_valgrind

apple:
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $(BIN)/$@ $(SRC)/$@.c

apple_docker:
	docker run --workdir $(HOME) --entrypoint $(CC) -v $(THIS_DIR):$(HOME) mooreryan/valgrind $(CFLAGS) -o $(BIN)/$@ $(SRC)/apple.c

apple_valgrind: apple_docker
	docker run --workdir $(HOME) -v $(THIS_DIR):$(HOME) mooreryan/valgrind $(BIN)/$^

clean:
	rm -r $(BIN)/*

Now to test the apple program with Valgrind, just type

$ make apple_valgrind

That's it!

License

To the extent possible under law, Ryan M. Moore has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this project.

If for whatever reason, CC0 will not work for your project, you may use MIT or the Unlicense.