Install Bazel on macOS (OS X) using one of the following methods:
Bazel comes with two completion scripts. After installing Bazel, you can:
JDK 8 can be downloaded from Oracle's JDK Page. Look for “Mac OS X” under “Java SE Development Kit”. This will download a DMG image with an install wizard.
Installing Homebrew is a one-time setup:
/usr/bin/ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/master/install)"
brew install bazel
You are all set. You can confirm Bazel is installed successfully by running bazel version.
You can later upgrade to newer version of Bazel with brew upgrade bazel.
We provide binary installers on our GitHub releases page
The installer only contains Bazel binary, some additional libraries are required to be installed on the machine to work.
JDK 8 can be downloaded from Oracle's JDK Page. Look for “Mac OS X” under “Java SE Development Kit”. This will download a DMG image with an install wizard.
Xcode can be downloaded from the Apple Developer Site, which will redirect to the App Store.
For objc_* and ios_* rule support, you must have Xcode 6.1 or later with iOS SDK 8.1 installed on your system.
Once XCode is installed you can trigger signing the license with the following command:
sudo gcc --version
Download the Bazel installer for your operating system.
Run the installer:
The --user flag installs Bazel to the $HOME/bin directory on your system and sets the .bazelrc path to $HOME/.bazelrc. Use the --help command to see additional installation options.
If you ran the Bazel installer with the --user flag as above, the Bazel executable is installed in your $HOME/bin directory. It's a good idea to add this directory to your default paths, as follows:
export PATH="$PATH:$HOME/bin"
You can also add this command to your ~/.bashrc file.
You are all set. You can confirm Bazel is installed successfully by running
bazel version