[Buildroot] Bazel integration in buildroot

Asaf Kahlon asafka7 at gmail.com
Fri Mar 1 15:33:18 UTC 2019


Hello Vadim,

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 2:19 PM Vadym Kochan <vadim4j at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Asaf,
>
> On Sun, Feb 24, 2019 at 06:24:40PM +0200, Asaf Kahlon wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > At my work we started a process in which we want to choose a construction
> > tool for our packages. Of course all the traditionals are on the list like
> > cmake, meson and others, but we're also looking at Bazel from Google.
> > All in all, Bazel seems like a nice construction tool, but I noticed that
> > there's not even one package in Buildroot that compiles with Bazel and I
> > wanted to know if we missed something. Is someone here familiar with this
> > build system and can elaborate more details on Bazel in the embedded world
> > and specifically in Buildroot?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Asaf.
>
> First of all I am not an expert, but I have some thoughts about this:)
>
> It looks like bazel is a Java application ? if so, then there will one
> more (I think big) dependency like Java on the host to build the bazel's
> packages, or it may be built by openjdk buildroot's package (which is
> not merged yet). Actually, bazel packages support might be added for local
> usages only.
>
> Anyway it is better if some of the buildroot experts can answer this question.
>
> Regards,
> Vadim Kochan

Thanks for the response!
I think too it would require a non-trivial change.
I'll be happy to hear from other Buildroot experts too.

Thanks,
Asaf.


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