1.Introduce
1.1. Features
- High-level build language
- fast and reliable
- multi-platform
- large scales and extensible
1.2. workflow
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Set up Bazel. Download and install Bazel.
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Set up a project workspace, which is a directory where Bazel looks for build inputs and
BUILD
files, and where it stores build outputs. -
Write a
BUILD
file, which tells Bazel what to build and how to build it.You write your
BUILD
file by declaring build targets using Starlark, a domain-specific language. (See example here.)A build target specifies a set of input artifacts that Bazel will build plus their dependencies, the build rule Bazel will use to build it, and options that configure the build rule.
A build rule specifies the build tools Bazel will use, such as compilers and linkers, and their configurations. Bazel ships with a number of build rules covering the most common artifact types in the supported languages on supported platforms.
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Run Bazel from the command line. Bazel places your outputs within the workspace.
1.3. backend workflow
- Loads the
BUILD
files relevant to the target. - Analyzes the inputs and their dependencies, applies the specified build rules, and produces an action graph.
- Executes the build actions on the inputs until the final build outputs are produced.
Since all previous build work is cached, Bazel can identify and reuse cached artifacts and only rebuild or retest what’s changed. To further enforce correctness, you can set up Bazel to run builds and tests hermetically through sandboxing, minimizing skew and maximizing reproducibility.
1.4. Download
sudo apt install g++ unzip zip
# Ubuntu 16.04 (LTS) uses OpenJDK 8 by default:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-8-jdk
# Ubuntu 18.04 (LTS) uses OpenJDK 11 by default:
sudo apt-get install openjdk-11-jdk
chmod +x bazel-<version>-installer-linux-x86_64.sh
./bazel-<version>-installer-linux-x86_64.sh --user
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin"
2. Example
2.1. Structure&SingleBuild
the CPP examples structure
examples
└── cpp-tutorial
├──stage1
│ ├── main
│ │ ├── BUILD
│ │ └── hello-world.cc
│ └── WORKSPACE
├──stage2
│ ├── main
│ │ ├── BUILD
│ │ ├── hello-world.cc
│ │ ├── hello-greet.cc
│ │ └── hello-greet.h
│ └── WORKSPACE
└──stage3
├── main
│ ├── BUILD
│ ├── hello-world.cc
│ ├── hello-greet.cc
│ └── hello-greet.h
├── lib
│ ├── BUILD
│ ├── hello-time.cc
│ └── hello-time.h
└── WORKSPACE
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workspace: a directory that holds your project’s source files and Bazel’s build outputs. It also contains files that Bazel recognizes as special:
- The
WORKSPACE
file, which identifies the directory and its contents as a Bazel workspace and lives at the root of the project’s directory structure, - One or more
BUILD
files, which tell Bazel how to build different parts of the project. (A directory within the workspace that contains aBUILD
file is a package. You will learn about packages later in this tutorial.)
- The
-
Build File:
cc_binary(
name = "hello-world",
srcs = ["hello-world.cc"],
)
- **Build Project: **
bazel build //main:hello-world # in the stage1//
- Review dependency graph:
bazel query --notool_deps --noimplicit_deps "deps(//main:hello-world)" \
--output graph
# view the graph locally by installing GraphViz and the xdot Dot Viewer:
sudo apt update && sudo apt install graphviz xdot
# generate and view the graph by piping the text output above straight to xdot:
xdot <(bazel query --notool_deps --noimplicit_deps "deps(//main:hello-world)" \
--output graph)
2.2. Multi-build
cc_library(
name = "hello-greet",
srcs = ["hello-greet.cc"],
hdrs = ["hello-greet.h"],
)
cc_binary(
name = "hello-world",
srcs = ["hello-world.cc"],
deps = [
":hello-greet",
],
)
2.3. Multi-Package
Take a look at the lib/BUILD
file:
cc_library(
name = "hello-time",
srcs = ["hello-time.cc"],
hdrs = ["hello-time.h"],
visibility = ["//main:__pkg__"],
)
And at the main/BUILD
file:
cc_library(
name = "hello-greet",
srcs = ["hello-greet.cc"],
hdrs = ["hello-greet.h"],
)
cc_binary(
name = "hello-world",
srcs = ["hello-world.cc"],
deps = [
":hello-greet",
"//lib:hello-time",
],
)
3. Common rules
3.1. including multiple files in a target
cc_library(
name = "build-all-the-files",
srcs = glob(["*.cc"]),
hdrs = glob(["*.h"]),
)
3.2. Using transitive includes
cc_library(
name = "sandwich",
srcs = ["sandwich.cc"],
hdrs = ["sandwich.h"],
deps = [":bread"],
)
cc_library(
name = "bread",
srcs = ["bread.cc"],
hdrs = ["bread.h"],
deps = [":flour"],
)
cc_library(
name = "flour",
srcs = ["flour.cc"],
hdrs = ["flour.h"],
)
3.3. Adding including paths
└── my-project
├── legacy
│ └── some_lib
│ ├── BUILD
│ ├── include
│ │ └── some_lib.h
│ └── some_lib.cc
└── WORKSPACE
cc_library(
name = "some_lib",
srcs = ["some_lib.cc"],
hdrs = ["include/some_lib.h"],
copts = ["-Ilegacy/some_lib/include"],
)
3.4. Adding dependencies on precompiled libraries
cc_library(
name = "mylib",
srcs = ["mylib.so"],
hdrs = ["mylib.h"],
)
3.5. including external libraries
load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
http_archive(
name = "gtest",
url = "https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-1.7.0.zip",
sha256 = "b58cb7547a28b2c718d1e38aee18a3659c9e3ff52440297e965f5edffe34b6d0",
build_file = "@//:gtest.BUILD",
)
cc_library(
name = "main",
srcs = glob(
["googletest-release-1.7.0/src/*.cc"],
exclude = ["googletest-release-1.7.0/src/gtest-all.cc"]
),
hdrs = glob([
"googletest-release-1.7.0/include/**/*.h",
"googletest-release-1.7.0/src/*.h"
]),
copts = [
"-Iexternal/gtest/googletest-release-1.7.0/include",
"-Iexternal/gtest/googletest-release-1.7.0"
],
linkopts = ["-pthread"],
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
)
load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
http_archive(
name = "gtest",
url = "https://github.com/google/googletest/archive/release-1.7.0.zip",
sha256 = "b58cb7547a28b2c718d1e38aee18a3659c9e3ff52440297e965f5edffe34b6d0",
build_file = "@//:gtest.BUILD",
strip_prefix = "googletest-release-1.7.0",
)
cc_library(
name = "main",
srcs = glob(
["src/*.cc"],
exclude = ["src/gtest-all.cc"]
),
hdrs = glob([
"include/**/*.h",
"src/*.h"
]),
copts = ["-Iexternal/gtest/include"],
linkopts = ["-pthread"],
visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
3.5.1 depending on other bazel projects
local_repository(
name = "coworkers_project",
path = "/path/to/coworkers-project",
)
3.5.2.depending on non-bazel projects
new_local_repository(
name = "coworkers_project",
path = "/path/to/coworkers-project",
build_file = "coworker.BUILD",
)
3.6. Shadowing dependencies
workspace(name = "myproject")
local_repository(
name = "A",
path = "../A",
)
local_repository(
name = "B",
path = "../B",
)
A/WORKSPACE
workspace(name = "A")
load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
http_archive(
name = "testrunner",
urls = ["https://github.com/testrunner/v1.zip"],
sha256 = "...",
)
B/WORKSPACE
workspace(name = "B")
load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
http_archive(
name = "testrunner",
urls = ["https://github.com/testrunner/v2.zip"],
sha256 = "..."
)
the above confront verson differ problem which can be solved by follows:
workspace(name = "myproject")
load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
http_archive(
name = "testrunner-v1",
urls = ["https://github.com/testrunner/v1.zip"],
sha256 = "..."
)
http_archive(
name = "testrunner-v2",
urls = ["https://github.com/testrunner/v2.zip"],
sha256 = "..."
)
local_repository(
name = "A",
path = "../A",
repo_mapping = {"@testrunner" : "@testrunner-v1"}
)
local_repository(
name = "B",
path = "../B",
repo_mapping = {"@testrunner" : "@testrunner-v2"}
)
3.7. Visibility
"//visibility:public"
: Anyone can use this target. (May not be combined with any other specification.)"//visibility:private"
: Only targets in this package can use this target. (May not be combined with any other specification.)"//foo/bar:__pkg__"
: Grants access to targets defined in//foo/bar
(but not its subpackages). Here,__pkg__
is a special piece of syntax representing all of the targets in a package."//foo/bar:__subpackages__"
: Grants access to targets defined in//foo/bar
, or any of its direct or indirect subpackages. Again,__subpackages__
is special syntax."//foo/bar:my_package_group"
: Grants access to all of the packages named by the given package group.- Package groups do not support the special
__pkg__
and__subpackages__
syntax. Within a package group,"//foo/bar"
is equivalent to"//foo/bar:__pkg__"
and"//foo/bar/..."
is equivalent to"//foo/bar:__subpackages__"
.
- Package groups do not support the special
learn from: https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/build-ref.html