bazel: command not found

[roman....@gmail.com]

First of all, as it comes to Bazel I´m a total noob, so pls no hate :)
I followed your instructions "Installing/ Using Bazel on Windows". I'm supposed to download the binary file from your release page which provides several different download versions. I tried with "Source Code (zip)".
I assume the "command not found" error has something to do with not setting up the system environment variable "path" correctly. I suppose the path variable should point to the binary (bin) folder? But where can I find it?

Best regards,

Fabian

[László Csomor]

Hi Fabian,

Welcome to the Bazel community!

You downloaded the source code of Bazel, which we call the "distribution archive". It's a zip file with the sources of Bazel, and a script that can compile it all. This is useful for those who want to build Bazel on a platform that we don't release pre-built binaries for.

Although you can also build Bazel from sources on Windows (after you install some additional software [3]), there's an easier way: download the pre-built Bazel binary [1] or use the Chocolatey package manager to install Bazel.

A few hours ago I rewrote the docs about how to install Bazel on Windows, so you may want to take another look at that [2].

Bazel needs some additional software to do its job, so make sure your system meets these requirements [3].

Happy building!

[1] https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/releases/download/0.11.0/bazel-0.11.0-windows-x86_64.exe

[2] https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/install-windows.html

[3] https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/windows.html#software-requirements

Cheers,

Laszlo

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