Beginning Bazel: Building and Testing for Java, Go, and More

© P.J. McNerney 2020

P. McNerneyBeginning Bazelhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5194-2_2

2. Setup and Installation

P. J. McNerney¹ 

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Blackhawk, CO, USA

 

Before we start building, we need to install Bazel and any other tools and frameworks required (e.g., compilers). In this chapter, we will demonstrate the necessary steps among several operating systems.

Note

Throughout the course of this book, we will be using Bazel version 1.0.0. Bazel is evolving rapidly, with new capabilities and configurations coming all the time. In this evolution, there may be changes to the dependencies which require tweaks to the build code. For the sake of the examples here, it is best for you to normalize against version 1.0.0. Once you have gotten the hang of Bazel, ...