Bazel Getting Started

Project Workspace

The folder that contains the workspace file, called a Bazel project workspace.

The workspace file identifies the current folder as workspace and can be empty.

BUILD file

The folder that contains the build file is called a package. All the package is under the workspace.

Contains many different types of directives. The main instruction is build rule.

Build rule contains a target, a variety of inputs, and dependencies.

Bazel builds dependency graphs based on the build file to support incremental builds.

Format of reference target://path/to/package:target-name

Bazel Getting Started