A development container is a running Docker container with a well-defined tool/runtime stack and its prerequisites. You can try out development containers with GitHub Codespaces or Visual Studio Code Remote - Containers.

Follow these steps to open this ptxdist environment in a container using the VS Code Remote - Containers extension:

1. If this is your first time using a development container, please ensure your system meets the pre-reqs (i.e. have Docker installed) in the getting started steps.

2. • Clone this repository to your local filesystem.
   • Press F1 and select the Remote-Containers: Open Folder in Container... command.
   • Select the cloned copy of this folder and wait for the container to start.

Once you have this container running, you'll be able to work with ptxdist like you would locally.

Some things to try:

1. Clone firmware sources:
   For now nested repositories are not supported by VSCode. There is already an issue on GitHub - Git: microsoft/vscode#37947
   As a workaround you should add the firmware sources as a submodule:

   git submodule add https://github.com/WAGO/pfc-firmware-sdk-G2.git src
   

2. Build firmware image:
   Included is a build command which you can call instead of "ptxdistimages -q" to start a "brute force" parallel build that repeats the compile process until the dependencies are all met. This is a workaround for the packages which have incomplete dependeny informations.

   cd src
   ptxdist select configs/wago-pfcXXX/ptxconfig_pfc_g2
   build
   

For more information on how to develop with ptxdist please refer to one of the firmware source repos e.g.:
https://github.com/WAGO/pfc-firmware-sdk
and the PFC Howtos:
https://github.com/WAGO/pfc-howtos