Running OpenCOMAL in Docker #3
Description
Before I explain my question/issue, I'll first give a bit of context. I'm one of the maintainers of a Primes repository that's linked to a YouTube video series. The video series documents a "drag race" between computer languages. It does this by comparing the execution speed of implementations of the Sieve of Eratosthenes algorithm, with some specific characteristics.
Over time, we've been able to add 71 languages to the project by a conservative count, including quite a few that are clearly not serious contenders for the top spot. These include languages like Bash, PowerShell, AWK, Octave, IDL, Prolog, (La)TeX, SQL, Emojicode and Befunge, to name a few. Personally, I have a soft spot for this type of submission, maybe due to my long-running interest in the history of computing, and "operational retro computing" in particular. In fact, my own initial contribution was an implementation in MIXAL.
At the moment, COMAL is not in the collection of languages yet. However, Dave, the initiator of the project and the creator of the YouTube video series, would really like to add this language in particular. He has found someone who already authored an implementation in COMAL.
I will work with the author to open a PR on the Primes repo to add his solution's source code, but I would really like to also include it in the daily benchmark runs. For this, his source would need to be compiled and executed in a Docker image.
My question is therefore if anyone has any experience with getting OpenCOMAL to build and run within Docker.
Full disclosure: I took a first stab at building the current version of this repo yesterday on Ubuntu 20.04 within and outside of Docker, and haven't been able to make that work. I've since then taken note of #2, and will try again with tag 0.3.0 over the coming weekend.
In the meantime, if anyone can give me any pointers towards how to do make OpenCOMAL work within Docker to save me some trial and error, it would be highly appreciated.