Installing Bazel on Windows

Prerequisites

• 64 bit Windows 7 or newer, or 64 bit Windows Server 2008 R2 or newer

• 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 GitHub. Look for bazel-<version>-windows-x86_64.exe, e.g. bazel-0.15.2-windows-x86_64.exe.

Tip: Rename the binary to bazel.exe and move it to a directory on your %PATH%, so you can run Bazel by typing bazel in any directory.

Other ways to get Bazel

• Install Bazel using the Chocolatey package manager
• Compile Bazel from source

Install using Chocolatey

1. Install the Chocolatey package manager

2. Install the Bazel package:

   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.