Building bazel on Arch

bazel.md

• Ensure that you have OpenJDK 8 installed on your system.

  • You can check this by running

          which javac 
    

• if output is which: no javac Install OpenJDK 8 by running the command

  sudo pacman -S jdk8-openjdk
  

Please not this is jdk not jre else you'll into the error $JAVA_HOME not set

• Download bazel--dist.zip from the release page for the desired version.

• Ensure you have zip installed on your system else the build will fail

  • You can check this by running

      zip
    

• if output is bash: command not found Install zip by running the command

   sudo pacman -S zip
  

• Unzip the archive and call ./compile.sh this will create a bazel binary in output/bazel. This binary is self-contained, so it can be copied to a directory on the PATH (such as /usr/bin)

• Test drive

    which bazel 
  

output should be /usr/bin/bazel