Bazel build error -- BUILD file location issue

[A Bit of Help]

source code: https://github.com/abitofhelp/abohapis.git

Hello,

I am spinning up on Bazel and have a project containing protos that I want to share with several applications.  I used Gazelle to create the BUILD files and to pull dependencies from go.mod.  However, when I tell Bazel to build all targets, it reports the following error.

```
(23:10:58) ERROR: /Users/mike/Go/src/github.com/abitofhelp/abohapis/proto/abitofhelp/api/blob/v5/BUILD.bazel:5:14: no such package 'abitofhelp/enum/v5': BUILD file not found in any of the following directories. Add a BUILD file to a directory to mark it as a package.
 - /Users/mike/Go/src/github.com/abitofhelp/abohapis/abitofhelp/enum/v5 and referenced by '//proto/abitofhelp/api/blob/v5:abitofhelp_api_blob_v5_proto'
```
However, the error says that a package 'abitofhelp/enum/v5" does not exist, when the proto directory and files do exist and pass proto linting.  The error says that I need to put a BUILD.bazel file in a directory path that does not exist.  The path where the BUILD and proto files exist is /Users/mike/Go/src/github.com/abitofhelp/abohapis/proto/abitofhelp/enum/v5

It seems the error message path is missing the "proto" that exists in the directory hierarchy.

I have been wrangling with this issue and googling, but to no avail.  I'd appreciate your help to figure out what is wrong.  

Thank you for your time and interest.
Mike

[Filip Filmar]

On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 11:27 PM 'A Bit of Help' via bazel-discuss <bazel-...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

I have been wrangling with this issue and googling, but to no avail.  I'd appreciate your help to figure out what is wrong.  

https://github.com/abitofhelp/abohapis/blob/7f1d19fefa30861d502bb2e21cd521ae55776330/proto/abitofhelp/api/blob/v5/BUILD.bazel#L10

The `deps` refers to "//abitofhelp/enum/v5:v5_proto", while the closest package that I can see in your source would be "//proto/abitofhelp/enum/v5".

This should remove the specific issue that you asked about. However you will probably need more work for this to compile.

Example: the target "//proto/abitofhelp/enum/v5:v5_proto" does not exist in that package: https://github.com/abitofhelp/abohapis/blob/main/proto/abitofhelp/enum/v5/BUILD.bazel#L5 You have ":abitofhelp_enum_v5_proto" and others, but ":v5_proto" is nowhere to be found.

Hope this helps you on your way. In short, make sure that your build files and your labels actually exist.

F

[David Turner]

It looks like this file defines a target that depends on a target labelled as //abitofhelp/enum/v5:v5_proto while your workspace directory layout provides //proto/abitofhelp/enum/v5:v5_proto.

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