Bazel BUILD Encyclopedia of Functions

Concepts and terminology

• Common definitions
  • Bourne shell tokenization
  • Label expansion
  • Typical attributes for most rules
  • Common attributes for all rules
  • Common attributes for tests
  • Common attributes for binaries
  • Configurable attributes
  • Implicit output targets
• "Make" variables
  • Use

Functions

• package
• package_group
• exports_files
• glob
• select
• workspace

Rules

Native rules ship with the Bazel binary and do not require a load statement. Native rules are available globally in BUILD files. In .bzl files, you can find them in the native module. For non-native Starlark rules that ship separately from Bazel, see the list of recommended rules.

Language-specific native rules

Language	Flags	Binary rules	Library rules	Test rules	Other rules
C / C++		cc_binary	cc_import cc_library cc_shared_library cc_static_library	cc_test	cc_toolchain fdo_prefetch_hints fdo_profile memprof_profile propeller_optimize
Java		java_binary	java_import java_library	java_test	java_package_configuration java_plugin java_runtime java_single_jar java_toolchain
Objective-C			objc_import objc_library
Protocol Buffer			cc_proto_library java_lite_proto_library java_proto_library proto_library py_proto_library		proto_lang_toolchain proto_toolchain
Python		py_binary	py_library	py_test	py_runtime
Shell		sh_binary	sh_library	sh_test

Language-agnostic native rules

Family	Rules
Extra Actions	action_listener extra_action
General	alias config_setting filegroup genquery genrule starlark_doc_extract test_suite
Platforms and Toolchains	constraint_setting constraint_value platform toolchain toolchain_type