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diff --git a/site/docs/windows.md b/site/docs/windows.md index ef32c292a2..22d02449f8 100644 --- a/site/docs/windows.md +++ b/site/docs/windows.md @@ -155,14 +155,19 @@ To build Python targets, you need: Both Python 2 and Python 3 are supported. - Bazel tries to locate the Python runtime the first time you build any - target. To tell Bazel where Python is, you can set the `BAZEL_PYTHON` - environment variable to the Python interpreter's path. For example: + To tell Bazel where Python is, you can use `--python_path=<path/to/python>`. + For example: ``` - set BAZEL_PYTHON=C:\Python27\python.exe + bazel build --python_path=C:/Python27/python.exe ... ``` + If `--python_path` is not specified, Bazel uses `python.exe` as + the interpreter and the binary looks for it in `$PATH` during runtime. + If it is not in `$PATH`(for example, when you use `py_binary` as an action's + executable, Bazel will sanitize `$PATH`), then the execution will fail. + + On Windows, Bazel builds two output files for `py_binary` rules: * a self-extracting zip file |