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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020-2021 CASTOR Software Research Centre
+# <https://www.castor.kth.se/>
+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2020-2021 Johan Paulsson
+
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+#Container for using bmv2 open source switch. See ref https://github.com/p4lang/behavioral-model
+#It is capable of loading a compiled bmv2 json file
+
+FROM ubuntu:16.04
+
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y \
+    automake \
+    cmake \
+    libjudy-dev \
+    libreadline-dev \
+    valgrind \
+    libtool-bin\
+    libgmp-dev \
+    libpcap-dev \
+    libboost-dev \
+    libboost-test-dev \
+    libboost-program-options-dev \
+    libboost-system-dev \
+    libboost-filesystem-dev \
+    libboost-thread-dev \
+    libevent-dev \
+    libtool \
+    flex \
+    bison \
+    pkg-config \
+    g++ \
+    libssl-dev \
+    libffi-dev \
+    python3-dev \
+    python3-pip \
+    wget \
+    git \
+    sudo \
+    && rm -rf /var/lib/apt/list/*
+
+#Install P4PI
+
+##protobuf
+RUN git clone https://github.com/google/protobuf.git
+RUN cd protobuf && git checkout tags/v3.6.1
+RUN cd protobuf && ./autogen.sh
+RUN cd protobuf && ./configure
+RUN cd protobuf && make
+RUN cd protobuf && make install
+RUN cd protobuf && ldconfig
+
+## Grpc
+RUN git clone https://github.com/google/grpc.git
+RUN cd grpc \ 
+    && git checkout tags/v1.17.2 \
+    && git submodule update --init --recursive \
+    && make \
+    && make install \
+    && ldconfig
+
+## PI
+RUN git clone https://github.com/p4lang/PI.git
+RUN cd PI \
+    && git submodule update --init --recursive \
+    &&./autogen.sh \
+    && ./configure --with-proto --without-internal-rpc -without-cli --without-bmv2 \
+    && make \
+    && make install
+
+
+RUN git clone https://github.com/p4lang/behavioral-model.git /usr/local/behavioral-model
+RUN cd /usr/local/behavioral-model && git submodule update --init --recursive
+
+
+## Nanomsg
+RUN mkdir tempdir
+RUN cd tempdir && chmod +x /usr/local/behavioral-model/travis/install-nanomsg.sh && /usr/local/behavioral-model/travis/install-nanomsg.sh
+RUN cd tempdir && chmod +x /usr/local/behavioral-model/travis/install-nnpy.sh && /usr/local/behavioral-model/travis/install-nnpy.sh
+
+RUN cd /usr/local/behavioral-model  \
+    && ./autogen.sh \
+    && ./configure --with-pi --without-thrift \
+    && make \
+    && make install
+
+RUN cd /usr/local/behavioral-model/targets/simple_switch_grpc \
+    && ./autogen.sh \
+    && ./configure \
+    && make \
+    && make install
+
+RUN ldconfig
+
+# RUN cd /usr/local/behavioral-model/travis && sudo chmod +x install-thrift.sh install-nanomsg.sh install-nnpy.sh
+
+
+# #Instead of install_deps.sh
+# RUN mkdir tempdir
+# RUN cd tempdir && sudo /usr/local/behavioral-model/travis/install-thrift.sh
+# RUN cd tempdir && /usr/local/behavioral-model/travis/install-nanomsg.sh
+# RUN cd tempdir && /usr/local/behavioral-model/travis/install-nnpy.sh
+
+# RUN rm -rf tempdir
+
+# RUN cd /usr/local/behavioral-model/ && ./autogen.sh
+# RUN /usr/local/behavioral-model/configure && make && make install
+# # RUN make
+# # RUN make install
+# RUN cd /usr/local/behavioral-model/ && ldconfig
+
+CMD tail -f /dev/null