diff --git a/helpers/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp/Dockerfile b/helpers/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp/Dockerfile
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+FROM debian:bullseye-slim
+RUN apt-get update && apt-get install -y git build-essential cmake pkg-config libsystemd-dev libexpat-dev
+COPY bashrc /root/.bashrc
+COPY build.sh .
+RUN ./build.sh
+WORKDIR /work
+CMD /sdbus-cpp/build/tools/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp
diff --git a/helpers/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp/Makefile b/helpers/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp/Makefile
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+# SPDX-FileCopyrightText: Copyright (c) 2023 MBition GmbH.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: MPL-2.0
+
+IMAGE_NAME ?= ifex_local/sdbus-xml2cpp
+CONTAINER_NAME ?= sdbus-xml2cpp
+CONTAINER_HOSTNAME ?= sdbus-xml2cpp
+
+.PHONY: _reset build rebuild buildnew run clean logs shell stop kill rm rmi
+
+default:
+	@echo "make [build|buildnew|run|clean|logs|shell|stop|kill|rm|rmi]"
+
+build:
+	docker build --tag=${IMAGE_NAME}:latest .
+
+# Build container fully from scratch, without reusing cached steps
+buildnew:
+	docker build --no-cache --tag=${IMAGE_NAME}:latest .
+
+# Run container (detached)
+run_selinux:
+	ZFLAG=:z make run
+
+run:
+	@docker rm -f ${CONTAINER_NAME}
+	@docker run -ti -h "${CONTAINER_HOSTNAME}" -v ${PWD}/..:/work${ZFLAG} --name=${CONTAINER_NAME} ${IMAGE_NAME}:latest
+
+run_shell:
+	@docker rm -f ${CONTAINER_NAME}
+	@docker run -ti -h "${CONTAINER_HOSTNAME}" -v ${PWD}/..:/work${ZFLAG} --name=${CONTAINER_NAME} ${IMAGE_NAME}:latest /bin/bash
+
+# Force remove container and image
+clean:  kill rm rmi
+
+logs:
+	docker logs -f ${CONTAINER_NAME}
+
+shell:
+	docker exec -it ${CONTAINER_NAME} /bin/bash
+
+stop:
+	docker stop ${CONTAINER_NAME} || true
+
+# Force stop and remove container
+kill:
+	docker kill ${CONTAINER_NAME} || echo "Cannot kill - probably not running"
+	docker rm ${CONTAINER_NAME} || echo "Container removed already"
+
+rm:
+	docker kill ${CONTAINER_NAME} 2>/dev/null && echo killed || echo "Container seems stopped already"
+	docker rm ${CONTAINER_NAME} || echo "Container seems removed already"
+
+rmi:
+	@docker rmi ${IMAGE_NAME}:latest 2>/dev/null && echo removed image || echo "Image seems removed already"
diff --git a/helpers/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp/README.md b/helpers/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp/README.md
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+# sdbus-c++-xml2cpp
+
+This is a code generator from the
+[sdbus-cpp](https://github.com/Kistler-Group/sdbus-cpp) project.
+
+**sdbus-cpp** is a C++ binding for D-Bus, which is layered on top of sdbus, a
+D-Bus implementation by the systemd project.
+
+**sdbus-c++-xml2cpp** translates a D-Bus interface description in D-Bus
+introspection format (XML) into C++ proxy and adapter/stub code.
+
+For **IFEX** this means we do not need to generate C++ code to interface with a
+D-Bus library like sdbus - instead the D-Bus XML introspection format is
+generated from IFEX to describe the interface, and a code generator like this
+one can then be used to get C++ code.
+
+This directory contains only a container description to compile and "package"
+the `sdbus-c++-xml2cpp` tool into something that can be run with docker.
+Alternatively, the `build.sh` script can be reused in another setup.  It
+encodes the few commands to compile the `sdbus-cpp` project, specifically with
+the code generator included.  The script does not install the dependencies
+needed to compile sdbus-cpp since that requires distro-specific commands
+anyway => Look at the Dockerfile for what is needed.
diff --git a/helpers/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp/bashrc b/helpers/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp/bashrc
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+# bashrc to make interactive use in container feasible
+alias ls -alF
+export PATH="/sdbus-cpp/build/tools/:$PATH"
diff --git a/helpers/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp/build.sh b/helpers/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp/build.sh
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+++ b/helpers/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp/build.sh
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+#!/bin/sh -xe
+
+if [ ! -d sdbus-cpp ] ; then
+   git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/Kistler-Group/sdbus-cpp
+fi
+cd sdbus-cpp
+rm -rf build
+mkdir -p build
+cd build
+cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_CODE_GEN=True
+cmake --build  .
+tools/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp -h
diff --git a/helpers/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp-generate b/helpers/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp-generate
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+++ b/helpers/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp-generate
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Wrapper to call "dockerized" sdbus-c++-xml2cpp tool
+
+# Settings:
+# docker, podman, ...
+CTR_TOOL=docker
+CTR_NAME=ifex_local/sdbus-xml2cpp
+BINARY=/sdbus-cpp/build/tools/sdbus-c++-xml2cpp
+
+# The tool can't seem to write to stdout :(
+# So... we'll have to pass in both input and output file names
+
+if [ $# -lt 1 ] ; then
+   echo "IFEX: Docker wrapper for sdbus-c++-xml2cpp tool."
+   echo "This generates both proxy and adapter/stub for the input D-Bus XML instrospection formatted file."
+   echo "It is required to generate both outputs -- if one output is not needed, throw it away..."
+   echo "If any output file is not specified, its file name will be generated."
+   echo "Since it bind-maps a directory into a container, all files must be local filenames in the *current directory* only!"
+   echo "Usage: $0 <input-xml-file> <output-proxy-header> <output-adapter-header>"
+   exit 1
+fi
+
+# Drop suffix if any
+xmlfile="$1" ; shift
+filebase=${xmlfile%.xml}
+proxyfile="$1" ; shift 2>/dev/null
+if [ -z "$proxyfile" ] ; then
+  proxyfile="$filebase.proxy.h"
+  echo "Proxy file will be written to $proxyfile"
+fi
+adapterfile="$1" ; shift 2>/dev/null
+if [ -z "$adapterfile" ] ; then
+  adapterfile="$filebase.adapter.h"
+  echo "Adapter file will be written to $adapterfile"
+fi
+
+$CTR_TOOL run -t --rm --volume $PWD:/work ${CTR_NAME} ${BINARY} --proxy="$proxyfile" --adapter="$adapterfile" "$xmlfile" "$@"