How to Install Bazel on OpenBSD

Bazel is a build tool that allows you to manage large codebases, with support for multiple programming languages. In this tutorial, we will be guiding you through the process of installing Bazel on OpenBSD.

Prerequisites

Before we can begin installing Bazel on OpenBSD, we need to ensure that the following items are installed on our machine:

OpenBSD, version 6.0 or higher
Bash shell
Python 2.7
Git

Steps

To install Bazel, we will be performing the following steps:

Install Go, which is used to build the Bazel binary
```
$ doas pkg_add go
```
Install the OpenJDK 8 package, which is required to run Bazel
```
$ doas pkg_add openjdk8
```

Download and build Bazel from the source code

$ doas pkg_add git
$ git clone https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel.git
$ cd bazel
$ env EXTRA_BAZEL_ARGS="--host_javabase=@local_jdk//:jdk" bash ./compile.sh

Install Bazel
```
$ doas cp output/bazel /usr/local/bin/
```
Verify that Bazel has been installed correctly
```
$ bazel version
```

Conclusion

Bazel is now installed and ready to use on your OpenBSD machine. You can now use Bazel to manage your builds and projects with ease. If you encounter any issues during the installation process, please refer to the official Bazel documentation for further assistance.