Bazel (software)
Bazel (/ˈbeɪzəl/) is a free and open-source software tool used for the automation of building and testing software. Google uses the build tool Blaze internally and released an open-sourced port of the Blaze tool as Bazel, named as an anagram of Blaze. Bazel was first released in March 2015 and was in beta status by September 2015. Version 1.0 was released in October 2019.
| Developer(s) | |
|---|---|
| Initial release | March 2015 |
| Stable release | 7.0.2
/ 25 January 2024 |
| Repository | |
| Written in | Java |
| Operating system | Cross-platform |
| License | Apache License 2.0 |
| Website | bazel |
Similar to build tools like Make, Apache Ant, and Apache Maven, Bazel builds software applications from source code using rules. Rules and macros are created in the Starlark language (previously called Skylark), a dialect of Python. There are built-in rules for building software written in Java, Kotlin, Scala, C, C++, Go, Python, Rust, JavaScript, Objective-C, and bash scripts. Bazel can produce software application packages suitable for deployment for the Android and iOS operating systems.