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Borgleader
Borgleader

Reputation: 15916

Automatically copy executable after build with Bazel

Suppose I have the following directory layout:

.../
  root/
    bin/
      sdl.dll
    src/
      main/
        main.cpp
        BUILD
      WORKSPACE

And a BUILD file that says:

cc_binary(
    name = "test",
    srcs = ["main.cpp"]
)

And my build command line is:

bazel build //main:hello-world --symlink_prefix=/

What do I need to add to my BUILD file such that test.exe (and test.pdb, if applicable) gets copied to bin (alongside sdl.dll)?

I looked at this page and tried using --output_base but way more stuff than I wanted to.

P.S: In "Visual Studio" term I'm looking to change $(OutDir) or a postbuild from $(OutDir) to ..\bin

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1830

Answers (1)

Jin
Jin

Reputation: 13473

You can't do this with Bazel directly. Bazel does not write to your source directories for hermeticity reasons. The workaround is to use a post-build step script that is either manually run, or by using bazel run.

Also see: How to write files to current directory instead of bazel-out.

Upvotes: 1

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