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Eric Anderson
Eric Anderson

Reputation: 1966

How to export/package a group of files from Bazel

This feels too obvious to be unanswered, but if the answer is out there, I haven't found it. For context, I'm incorporating someone else's existing code into a Bazel build, so I'm really not looking for "just don't do it that way"-type answers.

The code produces man dozen related files: Libraries, compiled binaries (from C and C++, if that matters), python and shell scripts, etc. Those files expect to find each other in specific locations (e.g. shell scripts reference binaries by relative or absolute path), and I need to package up and install the whole lot.

Is there a way to do that in Bazel? To pick out a bunch of bazel-generated files (and, in this case, a bunch of input files that we pass through unmodified) and put them in a tarball, or a standard package format (e.g. .deb) or even just place them in the local file system in known locations?

The closest ideas I've seen involve basically doing it by hand (e.g. writing a shell script to go into Bazel's output directory and copy out the files of interest) but that seems easy to get wrong. There has to be a way to use the intelligence of the build system to bundle up a bunch of targets and data files, right?

Upvotes: 4

Views: 2888

Answers (1)

Eric Anderson
Eric Anderson

Reputation: 1966

Naturally, I find what's probably the answer shortly after posting the question: https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/be/pkg.html. If anyone has further insight, though, I'm definitely happy to hear it!

Upvotes: -1

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