The first step in this tutorial is to set up your environment.
Here, you'll do the following:
Follow the installation instructions to install Bazel and its dependencies.
Do the following:
Download and install the Android SDK Tools.
Run the Android SDK Manager and install the following packages:
The SDK Manager is an executable named android located in the tools directory.
If you are following the steps in this tutorial on Mac OS X, download and install Xcode. The Xcode download contains the iOS libraries, Objective-C compiler other tools required by Bazel to build the iOS app.
You also need to get the sample project for the tutorial from GitHub:
https://github.com/bazelbuild/examples/
The GitHub repo has two branches: source-only and master. The source-only branch contains the source files for the project only. You‘ll use the files in this branch in this tutorial. The master branch contains both the source files and completed Bazel WORKSPACE and BUILD files. You can use the files in this branch to check your work when you’ve completed the tutorial steps.
Enter the following at the command line to get the files in the source-only branch:
$ cd $HOME $ git clone -b source-only https://github.com/bazelbuild/examples
The git clone command creates a directory named $HOME/examples/. This directory contains several sample projects for Bazel. The project files for this tutorial are in $HOME/examples/tutorial.
Now that you have set up your environment, you can set up a Bazel workspace.