- From startup to enterprise, choose the Bazel open source project to build and test your multi-language, multi-platform projects.
- To make Bazel easily accessible from command prompts or PowerShell by default, you can rename the Bazel binary to bazel.exe and add it to your default paths.
- Second, your builds are idempotent or in other words, reproducible. If you’re using a constant set of inputs, Bazel will produce the same build each time.
- workspace: a directory that holds your project’s source files and Bazel’s build outputs. It also contains files that Bazel recognizes as special
- Free. Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android. Build and test software of any size, quickly and reliably. Bazel only rebuilds what is necessary.
- Bazel 7.2.1 is a patch LTS release. It is fully backward compatible with Bazel 7.0 and contains selected changes by the Bazel community and Google engineers.
- Blaze is also the predecessor to Bazel. Bazel, Pants, Buck, and Please adopted Starlark as a BUILD file parser, respective to its BUILD file syntax.
- At the time of writing this article, I am a Google employee and I may be biased here, but I’ll still say it — Bazel is one of my favorite projects developed by Google.
- Currently, the Starlark Debugger can be used by right-clicking a build target in the Bazel Build Targets view and selecting "Build Target with Starlark Debugger".