Build Jetson Deepstream on x86

Accelerated Computing Intelligent Video Analytics DeepStream SDK
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I am trying to build an image using the build-push action for Nvidia Jetson architecture (linux/arm/v8).

• Hardware Platform (Jetson / GPU) GPU
• DeepStream Version 5.1
• JetPack Version (valid for Jetson only)
• TensorRT Version
• NVIDIA GPU Driver Version (valid for GPU only)
• Issue Type( questions, new requirements, bugs)
• How to reproduce the issue ? (This is for bugs. Including which sample app is using, the configuration files content, the command line used and other details for reproducing)
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I wanted to take advantage of cross compilation docker features but it is not working as expected.

This simple Dockerfile works when I build it on Nvidia Jetson but it does not when I try to build from another system:

# syntax=docker/dockerfile:experimental

FROM nvcr.io/nvidia/deepstream-l4t:5.0.1-20.09-samples as build

WORKDIR / 

RUN --mount=type=cache,id=apt-build,target=/var/cache/apt \
    apt update && apt install -y \
        git \
        wget \
        cmake \
        g++ && \
    rm -rf /var/lib/apt/lists/*

RUN git clone --depth=1 --single-branch --branch patch-1 https://github.com/mmeendez8/amirstan_plugin.git && \ 
    cd /amirstan_plugin && \ 
    git submodule update --init --progress --depth=1 && \
    mkdir build && \
    cd build && \
    cmake .. -DWITH_DEEPSTREAM=true && \
    make -j10

Jetson build command:

docker buildx build --f Dockerfile -t deepstream:jetson .

x86 build command:
docker buildx build --platform linux/arm64 -f Dockerfile -t deepstream:jetson .

Error output on x86 shows that:

#11 38.05 -- Found TensorRT headers at TENSORRT_INCLUDE_DIR-NOTFOUND
#11 38.06 -- Find TensorRT libs at TENSORRT_LIBRARY_INFER-NOTFOUND;TENSORRT_LIBRARY_PARSERS-NOTFOUND;TENSORRT_LIBRARY_INFER_PLUGIN-NOTFOUND
#11 38.07 -- Could NOT find TENSORRT (missing: TENSORRT_INCLUDE_DIR TENSORRT_LIBRARY) 
#11 38.07 ERRORCannot find TensorRT library.

I guess the deepstream jetson base container is build upon the l4t base container (NVIDIA L4T Base | NVIDIA NGC). In its documentation I can read the following:

The platform specific libraries and select device nodes for a particular device are mounted by the NVIDIA container runtime into the l4t-base container from the underlying host, thereby providing necessary dependencies for l4t applications to execute within the container. This approach enables the l4t-base container to be shared between various Jetson devices.

So I guess there is no way to make this cross compilation work with jetson containers since most of dependencies are on the Jetson host system. Is this correct?

Thanks

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Hey customer, we will check it and update you ASAP.

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Any news about this?

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Hey customer, most deepstream plugins and low level libraris are not open sourced, so I don’t think you can cross build it inside the container.