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| author |  Damien Martin-Guillerez <dmarting@google.com> | 2016-07-28 12:47:11 +0000 |
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| committer | Damien Martin-Guillerez <dmarting@google.com> | 2016-07-29 10:09:06 +0000 |
| commit | 95a54b98368a1c680c14e13d841b14a27aba01ca (patch) | |
| tree | 4a4f51e0d40ac2231b27054207ff838ef574a4fd /site/docs/windows.md | |
| parent | adc2d75bfb4bc7000b69183b6053a8ce6578748e (diff) | |
Rollback of commit 3e8bcae69a0718cf6972be086706b1841e0ed6b7.
*** Reason for rollback ***
Breaks design docs links
*** Original change description ***
Move Bazel docs into versioned directory.
* Move all Bazel docs (excluding main page, search page, and blog)
into versions/master directory.
* Replace all original pages with redirects.
* Add Jekyll config with default_version setting to specify the default
version to redirect docs to.
* Add Jekyll config with version_prefix setting specific to pages under
each version directory.
* Update layouts to generate links to pages for the same version with the
version_prefix.
* Update Blaze rel...
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MOS_MIGRATED_REVID=128690580
Diffstat (limited to 'site/docs/windows.md')
| -rw-r--r-- | site/docs/windows.md | 37 |
1 files changed, 35 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/site/docs/windows.md b/site/docs/windows.md index 8bf61e0e3b..ca7f0241d9 100644 --- a/site/docs/windows.md +++ b/site/docs/windows.md @@ -1,4 +1,37 @@ --- -layout: redirect -redirect: docs/windows.html +layout: documentation +title: Windows --- + +Building Bazel on Windows +========================= + +Windows support is highly experimental. Known issues are [marked with +label "Windows"](https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3AWindows) +on github issues. + +We currently support only 64 bit Windows 7 or higher and we can only compile +msys2 binaries. + +To bootstrap Bazel on Windows, you will need: + +* Java JDK 8 or later +* Visual Studio (Community Edition is okay, only `CL.EXE` is needed) +* [msys2](https://msys2.github.io/) (need to be installed at + ``C:\tools\msys64\``). +* Several msys2 packages. Use the ``pacman`` command to install them: + ``pacman -S gcc git curl zip unzip zlib-devel`` + +To build Bazel: + +* Open the msys2 shell. +* Clone the Bazel git repository as normal. +* Set the environment variables: + +```bash +export JAVA_HOME="$(ls -d C:/Program\ Files/Java/jdk* | sort | tail -n 1)" +export BAZEL_SH=c:/tools/msys64/usr/bin/bash.exe +``` + +* Run ``compile.sh`` in Bazel directory. +* If all works fine, bazel will be built at ``output\bazel.exe``. |