From d3a203ded5886504d9726e568f3bd92bdce93757 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Viraat Das <viraat.laldas@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 18:49:14 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] added a way to build with Docker

---
 Dockerfile | 26 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 README.md  | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 42 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 Dockerfile

diff --git a/Dockerfile b/Dockerfile
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dd23c28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Dockerfile
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+# Start with a lightweight Python image
+FROM python:3.10-slim
+
+# Install necessary build tools and dependencies for PySNARK
+RUN apt-get update && \
+    apt-get install -y --no-install-recommends \
+    swig \
+    cmake \
+    g++ \
+    git \
+    npm \
+    && apt-get clean \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*
+
+# Install PySNARK from GitHub
+RUN pip install git+https://github.com/meilof/pysnark
+
+# Set up a working directory in the container
+WORKDIR /app
+
+# Copy your local files (replace with your paths)
+COPY . /app
+
+# Default command for the container
+CMD ["python3"]
+
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ca1f2db..49812a8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -47,6 +47,22 @@ PySNARK is experimental and **not fit for production environment**.
 
 [![Binder](https://mybinder.org/badge_logo.svg)](https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/meilof/pysnark/nobackend?filepath=notebooks%2Ftest.ipynb)
 
+## Running with Docker (skip if using pip installation)
+
+Dockerfile is already provided. 
+
+**Building:**
+```
+docker build -t pysnark-env .
+```
+
+**Running:**
+```
+docker run -it --rm -v "$(pwd)/examples:/app" pysnark-env python3 /app/cube.py 3
+```
+
+
+
 ## Installation
 
 ```