bzlcompat
Because using bazel doesn't have to break your normal tools. bzlcompat
queries
bazel for all external dependencies of your codebase, and creates a symlink farm
so your normal tools can find/use them.
(N.B.: currently bzlcompat
only supports Go)
Installation
Download binaries from releases, or build it yourself following the instructions in the Development section below.
Usage
Add vendor/
to .bazelignore
in the top-level of your workspace.
Run bzlcompat
inside a bazel workspace. It will query bazel, and
create a symlink farm under vendor/
for all external go dependencies.
Development:
To build bzlcompat
yourself, install these dependencies:
sudo apt-get install curl protobuf-compiler
go get -u github.com/golang/protobuf/protoc-gen-go
and then run make proto
. This will download build.proto
from the bazel
project, and generate build.pb.go
in bzl/bzlpb
. This is used for
bzlcompat
to understand the output of bazel query
.
After that, go build
will give you a bzlcompat
binary, which you can copy to
wherever you need it to go.