How use bazel-gazelle in cpp project?

[roderick-liu]

hi It is a very useful tool in golang project. Does it been used in cpp project?

[jayconrod]

There's no native support for C++, but you could write an extension (see https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel-gazelle/blob/master/extend.rst).

[HALtheWise]

@roderick-liu I may be working on a C++ Gazelle extension soon, if you are interested in collaborating.

[dhanna11]

Is it possible to get some info about any c/c++ build file generation that Google already has? I’ve seen references to an unsupported “googlify” script that you can run on code checked into third_party.

I suspect a c++ extension won’t be remotely as straightforward as Go’s build system was heavily influenced by Blaze 😰

[roderick-liu]

@HALtheWise

hi Do you want to build tools for c++?

[dhanna11]

Some members of the Bazel team have been working on AOSP support for some time: See https://android-review.googlesource.com/q/owner:jingwen%2540google.com, https://blog.bazel.build/2020/11/12/aosp_migrating_to_bazel.html, and Bazel's undocumented native ninja rules: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/tree/master/src/main/java/com/google/devtools/build/lib/bazel/rules/ninja

[nnWhisperer]

Hello, I came here after seeing a recent BazelCon video, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol5hwjr48Q4 where the presenters share that they added gazelle rules for c++ and hence facilitated developers' overheads in their project, which is great. I searched online but couldn't proceed further. Are there any updates on this thread, i.e. have you managed to proceed? Thanks

[disdi]

Any update on C++ Support?

[pieknik]

@disdi @HALtheWise @roderick-liu My team is interested in the c++ extension as well. Would anyone be interested in a collaboration? If so I'll submit a new issue saying we'll (attempt to) add it

[albertocavalcante]

Is there any place where I can find more about ongoing efforts on this?

Gazelle for C++ would be great. If anyone already started working on it I'd love to take look.

[pieknik]

hey alberto our team actually went ahead and created a decent mvp for c++, Going to start working with my company to OSS the solution - we've gotten pretty efficient so it shouldn't take long

[mpatou]

Hey @pieknik can you publish your MVP somewhere ? I would be curious to see if/how it works.

[lpulley]

I found that video too, @nnWhisperer, and I had the same question. @pieknik have you had any luck getting the MVP open-sourced?

[peakschris]

@pieknik +1 :-)