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papirosnik
papirosnik

Reputation: 357

Is Bazel good for mobile+desktop project?

I am looking for a relible build system for my ongoing cross-platform c++ project. It's meant to be IOS (Obj-C (SWift?) + c++), Android (Java (Kothlin?) + cpp via NDK/Jni bridge) app, and probably osx and windows as well.

Although it's highly likely that desktop platforms are meant to be a 'development' platforms only (not production ones).

I considered gradle, but it didn't look like the best solution for ios and/or desktop platforms.

Of course, there is well known and well-proven cmake, but I personlly don't like it. I haven't had any experience with cmake on Android, and want to try something new and modern at the moment.

Bazel (https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/tutorial/cpp.html) looks promissing for me, but I am wondering how hard it might be to create 4 native project from one codebase/project structure.

In other words, I want to create one common make file for the 4 different platforms. When changes is going to be made, I'd like to make them only once and get all my four build working.

I believe, I understand platform dependant staff. The question is about possibility to have 1 common project for 4 different platforms.

Is it feaseble to acheive this with Bazel? Or you could reccommend anything else either?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 309

Answers (1)

Vertexwahn
Vertexwahn

Reputation: 8142

I think Bazel is the perfect solution for you. Take a look at this repository.

Take a look on chapter_9 (Android app) and chapter_10 (iOS app).

Upvotes: 1

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