From 317d5dfc064f1e99b8ac3e4a7464e7a166e21326 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Lomov Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2016 14:27:56 +0000 Subject: Blog post on Windows status and new installation instructions. -- MOS_MIGRATED_REVID=135474033 --- site/blog/_posts/2016-09-07-bazel-windows.md | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 31 insertions(+) create mode 100644 site/blog/_posts/2016-09-07-bazel-windows.md (limited to 'site/blog') diff --git a/site/blog/_posts/2016-09-07-bazel-windows.md b/site/blog/_posts/2016-09-07-bazel-windows.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..30b89ba0a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/site/blog/_posts/2016-09-07-bazel-windows.md @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@ +--- +layout: posts +title: Bazel on Windows +--- + +We first announced experimental Windows support in 0.3.0. Since then, we've +implemented support for building, running and testing C++, Java and Python, +as well as improved performance and stability. Starting with +Bazel version 0.3.2, we are making prebuilt Bazel Windows binaries available +as part of our +[releases](https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases) +([installation instructions](/docs/windows.html#using-the-release-binary)). + +In addition to bootstrapping Bazel itself, we're also able to build +significant parts of TensorFlow with Bazel on Windows +([pull request](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow/pull/4796)). +Bazel on Windows currently requires [msys2](https://msys2.github.io/) and +still has a number of issues. Some of the more important ones are: + + * [Workspace of the project needs to be on C: drive](https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/1463) + * [Runfiles will require additional tweaking](https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/1212) + * We support [building C++ code with MSVC toolchain](/docs/windows.html#build-c), + but it is not yet the default toolchain. + +Our GitHub issue tracker has a [full list of known issues](https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3A%22category%3A+multi-platform+%3E+windows%22). + +Now, we need your help! Please try building your Bazel project on Windows, +and let us know what works or what doesn't work yet, and what we can do better. + +We are looking forward to what you build (on Windows)! + -- cgit v1.2.3