Bazel

Bazel is Google's open-source build and test tool. It models a build as a dependency graph, hashes every input, and skips anything that hasn't changed, so a rebuild after touching one file stays fast even in a workspace with thousands of targets, and a build that succeeds on one machine reproduces the same outputs on another.

Most workspaces pin the version they build with via .bazelversion and launch Bazel through bazelisk rather than installing this package directly. Mirror bazel itself when you want one version pinned without a launcher indirection — a container image, an air-gapped build, or a CI job that shouldn't have to resolve .bazelversion at all.

What's included

• bazel — the single binary, bundling its own Java runtime. It needs no JDK on the host and runs wherever it lands. Upstream's nojdk build, which drops that runtime and requires a host JVM, is not mirrored for that reason.

Usage

bazel build //...

Builds every target in the workspace. Bazel reads the MODULE.bazel (or WORKSPACE) and BUILD files under the current directory the same way it does when launched through bazelisk.

Links

Apache-2.0 licensed.

• Bazel on GitHub
• Bazel Documentation