Package transitive deps in Bazel

Question

I would like to package lets say a binary with the pkg_tar command. But I would also automatically like it to include all deps to that binary, for example all .so files from other Bezel targets that are referenced with deps. Is it possible?

pkg_tar(
    name = "example",
    srcs = ["//myprogram"], # This only packages myprogram target
    mode = "0644",
)

Answer 1

Currently, this feature isn't officially supported. You have three basic options:

• explicitly enumrate all deps
• use one of "hacks" from https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/1920
• use undocumented include_runfiles = True feature https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/issues/145

Answer 2

Setting the (undocumented) include_runfiles = True will include the shared object and any other runfiles of all the transitive dependencies.