Passing JVM flags to bazel run target

[mvn...@gmail.com]

I can't seem to find the right incantation to pass some JVM flags to a bazel run target. I've tried "--jvm_flag" and "-jvmopt" both before and after the bazel run command. For example:

bazel run -- //:target -Dflag=value
bazel run --jvmopt="-Dflag=value" -- //:target
bazel run -- //:target --jvm_flag="-Dflag=value"

But, none of these seem to work. Is there some way to pass jvm flags to the java_binary through bazel run?

[dkon...@gmail.com]

Came across this while searching for a similar question. Here's the answer:

bazel run //<target> --jvmopt="-Xdebug" --jvmopt="-Xmx:512m" --jvmopt="-Xms:512m"
etc

[Doug Tangren]

On Monday, January 9, 2017 at 1:41:35 AM UTC-5, dkon...@gmail.com wrote:

Came across this while searching for a similar question. Here's the answer:

bazel run //<target> --jvmopt="-Xdebug" --jvmopt="-Xmx:512m" --jvmopt="-Xms:512m"

This doesn't seem to work for system properties. Should it?

[Andrew Barchuk]

Hi Doug,

Late for the party but the following works to set system properties:

bazel run --jvmopt='-Dprop1=val1 -Dprop2=val2' :binary <args>

Hope it would be useful for someone.

---
Andrew

[Hoa Phan]

Does it still work for you, I just tried

bazel run --jvmopt='-verbose' :binary <args> 

But it seems the verbose flag was not passed along. I'm on Bazel 0.18.