musserautomation/bnr-as412 repository overview

This image is a light wrapper around mcr.microsoft.com/dotnet/framework/runtime:3.5-windowsservercore-ltsc2022. It includes an installation of B&R's Automation Studio 4.12.6 tooling for building PLC projects. A big thank you to Wesley Buchanan⁠ for pioneering some of the Docker setup that made this possible.

The Automation Studio binaries are located in the default install location: C:/BrAutomation/AS412/bin-en/. For instance, the full path to the build tool is C:/BrAutomation/AS412/bin-en/BR.AS.Build.exe.

In order to use this image, follow these suggested steps:

• Set up a volume when you create the image that will map a local directory containing your repo to build into the container.
• Spin up the container.
• Invoke one of the B&R binary tools to carry out an operation on the project in the mapped volume. Following is an example command to build the "Simulator" configuration in a project: "C:/BrAutomation/AS412/bin-en/BR.AS.Build.exe" "C:/temp/repo/asProject.apj" -c "Simulator" -buildMode "Build"
• The output of the build will be streamed to the console live, and can be parsed by higher-level tools (i.e. Github Actions running the image, etc).