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layout: documentation title: Installing Bazel on Windows

Installing Bazel on Windows

Prerequisites

• 64 bit Windows 7 or newer, or equivalent Windows Server versions

• MSYS2 shell

• Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015

  These are common DLLs that Bazel needs. You may already have them installed.

Getting Bazel

Download Bazel for Windows from our GitHub releases page. Look for bazel-<version>-windows-x86_64.exe, e.g. bazel-0.13.0-windows-x86_64.exe.

Tip: For convenience, rename the downloaded binary to bazel.exe and move it to a directory that's on your %PATH% or add its directory to your %PATH%. This way you can run Bazel by typing bazel in any directory, without typing out the full path.

Other ways to get Bazel

You can also get Bazel by:

• Installing Bazel using Chocolatey
• Compiling Bazel from source

Install using Chocolatey

You can install the Bazel package using the Chocolatey package manager:

choco install bazel

This command will install the latest available version of Bazel and its dependencies, such as the MSYS2 shell. This will not install Visual C++ though.

See Chocolatey installation and package maintenance guide for more information about the Chocolatey package.