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_3

3. Your First Bazel Project

P. J. McNerney¹ 

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Blackhawk, CO, USA

 

Now that you’ve downloaded and set up Bazel, the real fun begins. We’ll start with a small project just to get started and then build (no pun intended) from there.

By the end of this chapter, you will have your first Bazel project up and running and be able to build and test code.

Setting Up Your Workspace

Prior to adding any code, we establish a new Bazel project by creating a WORKSPACE file to a given directory.

Create a directory for your project and create an empty WORKSPACE file:

$ mkdir chapter_03 (or <name of your directory>)

$ cd chapter_03 (or <name of your directory>)

chapter_03$ touch WORKSPACE ...