For a gentle introduction to cross compiling for the pi with Docker try here First we need a Docker image with the cross compilation tools installed, so we’ll grab the one from above: docker pull mitchallen/pi-cross-compile Create the build directory & cd into it git clone git://git.drogon.net/wiringPi Create a lib structure mkdir -p usr/local/bin usr/local/lib usr/local/include usr/lib Even though we use the pitools version of ldconfig it still looks in /etc/ld.