allbuildtestrunquerystartup options
--allow_yanked_versions=<string>
Specified the module versions in the form of `<module1>@<version1>, <module2>@<version2>` that will be allowed in the resolved dependency graph even if they are declared yanked in the registry where they come from (if they are not coming from a NonRegistryOverride). Otherwise, yanked versions will cause the resolution to fail. You can also define allowed yanked version with the `BZLMOD_ALLOW_YANKED_VERSIONS` environment variable. You can disable this check by using the keyword 'all' (not recommended).
may be used multiple times
loading and_analysis
--announce_rc=<true or false>
Whether to announce rc options.
default: "false"
affects outputs
--attempt_to_print_relative_paths=<true or false>
When printing the location part of messages, attempt to use a path relative to the workspace directory or one of the directories specified by -- package_path.
default: "false"
terminal output
--bes_backend=<string>
Specifies the build event service (BES) backend endpoint in the form [SCHEME://]HOST[:PORT]. The default is to disable BES uploads. Supported schemes are grpc and grpcs (grpc with TLS enabled). If no scheme is provided, Bazel assumes grpcs.
default: ""
affects outputs
--bes_check_preceding_lifecycle_events=<true or false>
Sets the field check_preceding_lifecycle_events_present on PublishBuildToolEventStreamRequest which tells BES to check whether it previously received InvocationAttemptStarted and BuildEnqueued events matching the current tool event.
default: "false"
affects outputs
--bes_header=<'name=value' assignment>
Specify a header in NAME=VALUE form that will be included in BES requests. Multiple headers can be passed by specifying the flag multiple times. Multiple values for the same name will be converted to a comma-separated list.
may be used multiple times
affects outputs
--bes_instance_name=<string>
Specifies the instance name under which the BES will persist uploaded BEP. Defaults to null.
default: see description
affects outputs
--bes_keywords=<comma-separated list of options>
Specifies a list of notification keywords to be added the default set of keywords published to BES ("command_name=<command_name> ", "protocol_name=BEP"). Defaults to none.
may be used multiple times
affects outputs
--bes_lifecycle_events=<true or false>
Specifies whether to publish BES lifecycle events. (defaults to 'true').
default: "true"
affects outputs
--bes_oom_finish_upload_timeout=<An immutable length of time.>
Specifies how long bazel should wait for the BES/BEP upload to complete while OOMing. This flag ensures termination when the JVM is severely GC thrashing and cannot make progress on any user thread.
default: "10m"
bazel monitoring
--bes_outerr_buffer_size=<integer>
Specifies the maximal size of stdout or stderr to be buffered in BEP, before it is reported as a progress event. Individual writes are still reported in a single event, even if larger than the specified value up to -- bes_outerr_chunk_size.
default: "10240"
affects outputs
--bes_outerr_chunk_size=<integer>
Specifies the maximal size of stdout or stderr to be sent to BEP in a single message.
default: "1048576"
affects outputs
--bes_proxy=<string>
Connect to the Build Event Service through a proxy. Currently this flag can only be used to configure a Unix domain socket (unix:/path/to/socket).
default: see description
--bes_results_url=<string>
Specifies the base URL where a user can view the information streamed to the BES backend. Bazel will output the URL appended by the invocation id to the terminal.
default: ""
terminal output
--bes_timeout=<An immutable length of time.>
Specifies how long bazel should wait for the BES/BEP upload to complete after the build and tests have finished. A valid timeout is a natural number followed by a unit: Days (d), hours (h), minutes (m), seconds (s), and milliseconds (ms). The default value is '0' which means that there is no timeout.
default: "0s"
affects outputs
--build_event_binary_file=<string>
If non-empty, write a varint delimited binary representation of representation of the build event protocol to that file. This option implies --bes_upload_mode=wait_for_upload_complete. Using this option will also add: -- bes_upload_mode=wait_for_upload_complete
default: ""
affects outputs
--build_event_binary_file_path_conversion=<true or false>
Convert paths in the binary file representation of the build event protocol to more globally valid URIs whenever possible; if disabled, the file:// uri scheme will always be used
default: "true"
affects outputs
--build_event_json_file=<string>
If non-empty, write a JSON serialisation of the build event protocol to that file.
default: ""
affects outputs
--build_event_json_file_path_conversion=<true or false>
Convert paths in the json file representation of the build event protocol to more globally valid URIs whenever possible; if disabled, the file:// uri scheme will always be used
default: "true"
affects outputs
--build_event_max_named_set_of_file_entries=<integer>
The maximum number of entries for a single named_set_of_files event; values smaller than 2 are ignored and no event splitting is performed. This is intended for limiting the maximum event size in the build event protocol, although it does not directly control event size. The total event size is a function of the structure of the set as well as the file and uri lengths, which may in turn depend on the hash function.
default: "-1"
affects outputs
--build_event_publish_all_actions=<true or false>
Whether all actions should be published.
default: "false"
affects outputs
--build_event_text_file=<string>
If non-empty, write a textual representation of the build event protocol to that file
default: ""
affects outputs
--build_event_text_file_path_conversion=<true or false>
Convert paths in the text file representation of the build event protocol to more globally valid URIs whenever possible; if disabled, the file:// uri scheme will always be used
default: "true"
affects outputs
--build_metadata=<'name=value' assignment>
Custom key-value string pairs to supply in a build event.
may be used multiple times
terminal output
--charset=<utf8 or ascii>
Chooses the character set to use for the tree. Only affects text output. Valid values are "utf8" or "ascii". Default is "utf8"
default: "utf8"
terminal output
--check_bazel_compatibility=<error, warning or off>
Check bazel version compatibility of Bazel modules. Valid values are `error` to escalate it to a resolution failure, `off` to disable the check, or `warning` to print a warning when mismatch detected.
default: "error"
loading and_analysis
--check_bzl_visibility=<true or false>
If disabled, .bzl load visibility errors are demoted to warnings.
default: "true"
build file_semantics
--check_direct_dependencies=<off, warning or error>
Check if the direct `bazel_dep` dependencies declared in the root module are the same versions you get in the resolved dependency graph. Valid values are `off` to disable the check, `warning` to print a warning when mismatch detected or `error` to escalate it to a resolution failure.
default: "warning"
loading and_analysis
--color=<yes, no or auto>
Use terminal controls to colorize output.
default: "auto"
--config=<string>
Selects additional config sections from the rc files; for every <command>, it also pulls in the options from <command>:<config> if such a section exists; if this section doesn't exist in any .rc file, Blaze fails with an error. The config sections and flag combinations they are equivalent to are located in the tools/*.blazerc config files.
may be used multiple times
--curses=<yes, no or auto>
Use terminal cursor controls to minimize scrolling output.
default: "auto"
--cycles=<true or false>
Points out dependency cycles inside the displayed tree, which are normally ignored by default.
default: "false"
execution
--deleted_packages=<comma-separated list of package names>
A comma-separated list of names of packages which the build system will consider non-existent, even if they are visible somewhere on the package path.Use this option when deleting a subpackage 'x/y' of an existing package 'x'. For example, after deleting x/y/BUILD in your client, the build system may complain if it encounters a label '//x:y/z' if that is still provided by another package_path entry. Specifying --deleted_packages x/y avoids this problem.
default: ""
--depth=<integer>
Maximum display depth of the dependency tree. A depth of 1 displays the direct dependencies, for example. For tree, path and all_paths it defaults to Integer.MAX_VALUE, while for deps and explain it defaults to 1 (only displays direct deps of the root besides the target leaves and their parents).
default: "-1"
execution
--distdir=<path>
Additional places to search for archives before accessing the network to download them.
may be used multiple times
bazel internal_configuration
--enable_bzlmod=<true or false>
If true, enables the Bzlmod dependency management system, taking precedence over WORKSPACE. See https://bazel.build/docs/bzlmod for more information.
default: "false"
loading and_analysis
--enable_platform_specific_config=<true or false>
If true, Bazel picks up host-OS-specific config lines from bazelrc files. For example, if the host OS is Linux and you run bazel build, Bazel picks up lines starting with build:linux. Supported OS identifiers are linux, macos, windows, freebsd, and openbsd. Enabling this flag is equivalent to using --config=linux on Linux, --config=windows on Windows, etc.
default: "false"
--experimental_action_resource_set=<true or false>
If set to true, ctx.actions.run() and ctx.actions.run_shell() accept a resource_set parameter for local execution. Otherwise it will default to 250 MB for memory and 1 cpu.
default: "true"
execution
build file_semantics
experimental
--experimental_allow_tags_propagation=<true or false>
If set to true, tags will be propagated from a target to the actions' execution requirements; otherwise tags are not propagated. See https: //github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/8830 for details.
default: "false"
build file_semantics
experimental
--experimental_allow_top_level_aspects_parameters=<true or false>
No-op
default: "true"
no op
deprecated
experimental
--experimental_analysis_test_call=<true or false>
If set to true, analysis_test native call is available.
default: "true"
loading and_analysis
build file_semantics
experimental
--experimental_announce_profile_path=<true or false>
If enabled, adds the JSON profile path to the log.
default: "false"
affects outputs
bazel monitoring
--experimental_bep_target_summary=<true or false>
Whether to publish TargetSummary events.
default: "false"
--experimental_build_event_expand_filesets=<true or false>
If true, expand Filesets in the BEP when presenting output files.
default: "false"
affects outputs
--experimental_build_event_fully_resolve_fileset_symlinks=<true or false>
If true, fully resolve relative Fileset symlinks in the BEP when presenting output files. Requires --experimental_build_event_expand_filesets.
default: "false"
affects outputs
--experimental_build_event_upload_max_retries=<integer>
The maximum number of times Bazel should retry uploading a build event.
default: "4"
bazel internal_configuration
--experimental_build_event_upload_retry_minimum_delay=<An immutable length of time.>
Initial, minimum delay for exponential backoff retries when BEP upload fails. (exponent: 1.6)
default: "1s"
bazel internal_configuration
--experimental_build_event_upload_strategy=<string>
Selects how to upload artifacts referenced in the build event protocol.
default: see description
affects outputs
--experimental_bzl_visibility=<true or false>
If enabled, adds a `visibility()` function that .bzl files may call during top-level evaluation to set their visibility for the purpose of load() statements.
default: "true"
loading and_analysis
experimental
--experimental_cc_shared_library=<true or false>
If set to true, rule attributes and Starlark API methods needed for the rule cc_shared_library will be available
default: "false"
build file_semantics
loading and_analysis
experimental
--experimental_credential_helper=<An (unresolved) path to a credential helper for a scope.>
Configures Credential Helpers to use for retrieving credentials for the provided scope (domain).Credentials from Credential Helpers take precedence over credentials from <code>--google_default_credentials</code>, `--google_credentials`, or <code>.netrc</code>.See https://github.com/bazelbuild/proposals/blob/main/designs/2022-06-07-bazel-credential-helpers.md for details.
may be used multiple times
--experimental_credential_helper_cache_duration=<An immutable length of time.>
Configures the duration for which credentials from Credential Helpers are cached.Invoking with a different value will adjust the lifetime of preexisting entries; pass zero to clear the cache. A clean command always clears the cache, regardless of this flag.
default: "30m"
--experimental_credential_helper_timeout=<An immutable length of time.>
Configures the timeout for the Credential Helper.Credential Helpers failing to respond within this timeout will fail the invocation.
default: "5s"
--experimental_disable_external_package=<true or false>
If set to true, the auto-generated //external package will not be available anymore. Bazel will still be unable to parse the file 'external/BUILD', but globs reaching into external/ from the unnamed package will work.
default: "false"
loading and_analysis
loses incremental_state
experimental
--experimental_downloader_config=<string>
Specify a file to configure the remote downloader with. This file consists of lines, each of which starts with a directive (`allow`, `block` or `rewrite`) followed by either a host name (for `allow` and `block`) or two patterns, one to match against, and one to use as a substitute URL, with back-references starting from `$1`. It is possible for multiple `rewrite` directives for the same URL to be give, and in this case multiple URLs will be returned.
default: see description
--experimental_enable_android_migration_apis=<true or false>
If set to true, enables the APIs required to support the Android Starlark migration.
default: "false"
build file_semantics
--experimental_get_fixed_configured_action_env=<true or false>
If enabled, action.env will also return fixed environment variables specified through features configuration.
default: "false"
loading and_analysis
experimental
--experimental_google_legacy_api=<true or false>
If set to true, exposes a number of experimental pieces of Starlark build API pertaining to Google legacy code.
default: "false"
loading and_analysis
experimental
--experimental_lazy_template_expansion=<true or false>
If set to true, ctx.actions.expand_template() accepts a TemplateDict parameter for deferred evaluation of substitution values.
default: "true"
execution
build file_semantics
experimental
--experimental_oom_more_eagerly_threshold=<integer>
If this flag is set to a value less than 100, Bazel will OOM if, after two full GC's, more than this percentage of the (old gen) heap is still occupied.
default: "100"
host machine_resource_optimizations
--experimental_platforms_api=<true or false>
If set to true, enables a number of platform-related Starlark APIs useful for debugging.
default: "false"
loading and_analysis
experimental
--experimental_profile_additional_tasks=<phase, action, action_check, action_lock, action_release, action_update, action_complete, info, create_package, remote_execution, local_execution, scanner, local_parse, upload_time, process_time, remote_queue, remote_setup, fetch, vfs_stat, vfs_dir, vfs_readlink, vfs_md5, vfs_xattr, vfs_delete, vfs_open, vfs_read, vfs_write, vfs_glob, vfs_vmfs_stat, vfs_vmfs_dir, vfs_vmfs_read, wait, thread_name, thread_sort_index, skyframe_eval, skyfunction, critical_path, critical_path_component, handle_gc_notification, action_counts, local_cpu_usage, system_cpu_usage, local_memory_usage, system_memory_usage, system_network_up_usage, system_network_down_usage, workers_memory_usage, system_load_average, starlark_parser, starlark_user_fn, starlark_builtin_fn, starlark_user_compiled_fn, starlark_repository_fn, action_fs_staging, remote_cache_check, remote_download, remote_network, filesystem_traversal, worker_execution, worker_setup, worker_borrow, worker_working, worker_copying_outputs, credential_helper or unknown>
Specifies additional profile tasks to be included in the profile.
may be used multiple times
affects outputs
bazel monitoring
--experimental_profile_include_primary_output=<true or false>
Includes the extra "out" attribute in action events that contains the exec path to the action's primary output.
default: "false"
affects outputs
bazel monitoring
--experimental_profile_include_target_label=<true or false>
Includes target label in action events' JSON profile data.
default: "false"
affects outputs
bazel monitoring
--experimental_record_metrics_for_all_mnemonics=<true or false>
By default the number of action types is limited to the 20 mnemonics with the largest number of executed actions. Setting this option will write statistics for all mnemonics.
default: "false"
--experimental_repo_remote_exec=<true or false>
If set to true, repository_rule gains some remote execution capabilities.
default: "false"
build file_semantics
loading and_analysis
experimental
--experimental_repository_cache_hardlinks=<true or false>
If set, the repository cache will hardlink the file in case of a cache hit, rather than copying. This is intended to save disk space.
default: "false"
bazel internal_configuration
--experimental_repository_cache_urls_as_default_canonical_id=<true or false>
If true, use a string derived from the URLs of repository downloads as the canonical_id if not specified. This causes a change in the URLs to result in a redownload even if the cache contains a download with the same hash. This can be used to verify that URL changes don't result in broken repositories being masked by the cache.
default: "false"
loading and_analysis
experimental
--experimental_repository_disable_download=<true or false>
If set, downloading external repositories is not allowed.
default: "false"
experimental
--experimental_repository_downloader_retries=<integer>
The maximum number of attempts to retry a download error. If set to 0, retries are disabled.
default: "0"
experimental
--experimental_repository_hash_file=<string>
If non-empty, specifies a file containing a resolved value, against which the repository directory hashes should be verified
default: ""
affects outputs
experimental
--experimental_resolved_file_instead_of_workspace=<string>
If non-empty read the specified resolved file instead of the WORKSPACE file
default: ""
changes inputs
--experimental_scale_timeouts=<double>
Scale all timeouts in Starlark repository rules by this factor. In this way, external repositories can be made working on machines that are slower than the rule author expected, without changing the source code
default: "1.0"
bazel internal_configuration
experimental
--experimental_sibling_repository_layout=<true or false>
If set to true, non-main repositories are planted as symlinks to the main repository in the execution root. That is, all repositories are direct children of the $output_base/execution_root directory. This has the side effect of freeing up $output_base/execution_root/__main__/external for the real top-level 'external' directory.
default: "false"
action command_lines
bazel internal_configuration
loading and_analysis
loses incremental_state
experimental
--experimental_skymeld_ui=<true or false>
Displays both analysis and execution phase progress when both are running concurrently.
default: "false"
terminal output
--experimental_stream_log_file_uploads=<true or false>
Stream log file uploads directly to the remote storage rather than writing them to disk.
default: "false"
affects outputs
--experimental_ui_max_stdouterr_bytes=<integer in (-1)-1073741819 range>
The maximum size of the stdout / stderr files that will be printed to the console. -1 implies no limit.
default: "1048576"
execution
--experimental_verify_repository_rules=<string>
If list of repository rules for which the hash of the output directory should be verified, provided a file is specified by -- experimental_repository_hash_file.
may be used multiple times
affects outputs
experimental
--experimental_windows_watchfs=<true or false>
If true, experimental Windows support for --watchfs is enabled. Otherwise --watchfsis a non-op on Windows. Make sure to also enable --watchfs.
default: "false"
--experimental_workspace_rules_log_file=<path>
Log certain Workspace Rules events into this file as delimited WorkspaceEvent protos.
default: see description
--extra=<true or false>
The queries will also display the reason why modules were resolved to their current version (if changed). Defaults to true only for the explain query.
default: "false"
execution
--from=<list of <module>s separated by comma>
The module(s) starting from which the dependency graph query will be displayed. Check each query?s description for the exact semantic. Defaults to root.
default: "root"
execution
--generate_json_trace_profile=<tri-state (auto, yes, no)>
If enabled, Bazel profiles the build and writes a JSON-format profile into a file in the output base. View profile by loading into chrome://tracing. By default Bazel writes the profile for all build-like commands and query.
default: "auto"
affects outputs
bazel monitoring
--google_auth_scopes=<comma-separated list of options>
A comma-separated list of Google Cloud authentication scopes.
default: "https://www.googleapis.com/auth/cloud-platform"
--google_credentials=<string>
Specifies the file to get authentication credentials from. See https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication for details.
default: see description
--google_default_credentials=<true or false>
Whether to use 'Google Application Default Credentials' for authentication. See https://cloud.google.com/docs/authentication for details. Disabled by default.
default: "false"
--grpc_keepalive_time=<An immutable length of time.>
Configures keep-alive pings for outgoing gRPC connections. If this is set, then Bazel sends pings after this much time of no read operations on the connection, but only if there is at least one pending gRPC call. Times are treated as second granularity; it is an error to set a value less than one second. By default, keep-alive pings are disabled. You should coordinate with the service owner before enabling this setting. For example to set a value of 30 seconds to this flag, it should be done as this --grpc_keepalive_time=30s
default: see description
--grpc_keepalive_timeout=<An immutable length of time.>
Configures a keep-alive timeout for outgoing gRPC connections. If keep-alive pings are enabled with --grpc_keepalive_time, then Bazel times out a connection if it does not receive a ping reply after this much time. Times are treated as second granularity; it is an error to set a value less than one second. If keep-alive pings are disabled, then this setting is ignored.
default: "20s"
--heap_dump_on_oom=<true or false>
Whether to manually output a heap dump if an OOM is thrown (including OOMs due to --experimental_oom_more_eagerly_threshold). The dump will be written to <output_base>/<invocation_id>.heapdump.hprof. This option effectively replaces -XX:+HeapDumpOnOutOfMemoryError, which has no effect because OOMs are caught and redirected to Runtime#halt.
default: "false"
bazel monitoring
--http_timeout_scaling=<double>
Scale all timeouts related to http downloads by the given factor
default: "1.0"
bazel internal_configuration
--ignore_dev_dependency=<true or false>
If true, Bazel ignores `bazel_dep` and `use_extension` declared as `dev_dependency` in the MODULE.bazel of the root module. Note that, those dev dependencies are always ignored in the MODULE.bazel if it's not the root module regardless of the value of this flag.
default: "false"
loading and_analysis
--include_unused=<true or false>
The queries will also take into account and display the unused modules, which are not present in the module resolution graph after selection (due to the Minimal-Version Selection or override rules). This can have different effects for each of the query types i.e. include new paths in the all_paths command, or extra dependants in the explain command.
default: "false"
execution
--incompatible_always_check_depset_elements=<true or false>
Check the validity of elements added to depsets, in all constructors. Elements must be immutable, but historically the depset(direct=...) constructor forgot to check. Use tuples instead of lists in depset elements. See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/10313 for details.
default: "true"
build file_semantics
incompatible change
--incompatible_config_setting_private_default_visibility=<true or false>
If incompatible_enforce_config_setting_visibility=false, this is a noop. Else, if this flag is false, any config_setting without an explicit visibility attribute is //visibility:public. If this flag is true, config_setting follows the same visibility logic as all other rules. See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/12933.
default: "false"
loading and_analysis
incompatible change
--incompatible_depset_for_libraries_to_link_getter=<true or false>
When true, Bazel no longer returns a list from linking_context. libraries_to_link but returns a depset instead.
default: "true"
loading and_analysis
incompatible change
--incompatible_disable_starlark_host_transitions=<true or false>
If set to true, rule attributes cannot set 'cfg = "host"'. Rules should set 'cfg = "exec"' instead.
default: "false"
loading and_analysis
incompatible change
--incompatible_disable_target_provider_fields=<true or false>
If set to true, disable the ability to access providers on 'target' objects via field syntax. Use provider-key syntax instead. For example, instead of using `ctx.attr.dep.my_info` to access `my_info` from inside a rule implementation function, use `ctx.attr.dep[MyInfo]`. See https://github. com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/9014 for details.
default: "false"
build file_semantics
incompatible change
--incompatible_disallow_empty_glob=<true or false>
If set to true, the default value of the `allow_empty` argument of glob() is False.
default: "false"
build file_semantics
incompatible change
--incompatible_disallow_legacy_javainfo=<true or false>
Deprecated. No-op.
default: "true"
build file_semantics
incompatible change
--incompatible_disallow_struct_provider_syntax=<true or false>
If set to true, rule implementation functions may not return a struct. They must instead return a list of provider instances.
default: "false"
build file_semantics
incompatible change
--incompatible_disallow_symlink_file_to_dir=<true or false>
If set to true, `ctx.actions.symlink` will disallow symlinking a file into a directory.
default: "true"
loading and_analysis
incompatible change
--incompatible_do_not_split_linking_cmdline=<true or false>
When true, Bazel no longer modifies command line flags used for linking, and also doesn't selectively decide which flags go to the param file and which don't. See https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/7670 for details.
default: "true"
loading and_analysis
incompatible change
--incompatible_enforce_config_setting_visibility=<true or false>
If true, enforce config_setting visibility restrictions. If false, every config_setting is visible to every target. See https://github. com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/12932.
default: "true"
loading and_analysis
incompatible change
--incompatible_existing_rules_immutable_view=<true or false>
If set to true, native.existing_rule and native.existing_rules return lightweight immutable view objects instead of mutable dicts.
default: "true"
build file_semantics
loading and_analysis
incompatible change
--incompatible_fix_package_group_reporoot_syntax=<true or false>
In package_group's `packages` attribute, changes the meaning of the value "//..." to refer to all packages in the current repository instead of all packages in any repository. You can use the special value "public" in place of "//..." to obtain the old behavior. This flag requires that -- incompatible_package_group_has_public_syntax also be enabled.
default: "true"
build file_semantics
incompatible change
--incompatible_java_common_parameters=<true or false>
If set to true, the output_jar, and host_javabase parameters in pack_sources and host_javabase in compile will all be removed.
default: "true"
build file_semantics
incompatible change
--incompatible_new_actions_api=<true or false>
If set to true, the API to create actions is only available on `ctx. actions`, not on `ctx`.
default: "true"
build file_semantics
incompatible change
--incompatible_no_attr_license=<true or false>
If set to true, disables the function `attr.license`.
default: "true"
build file_semantics
incompatible change
--incompatible_no_implicit_file_export=<true or false>
If set, (used) source files are are package private unless exported explicitly. See https://github. com/bazelbuild/proposals/blob/master/designs/2019-10-24-file-visibility.md
default: "false"
build file_semantics
incompatible change
--incompatible_no_rule_outputs_param=<true or false>
If set to true, disables the `outputs` parameter of the `rule()` Starlark function.
default: "false"
build file_semantics
incompatible change
--incompatible_package_group_has_public_syntax=<true or false>
In package_group's `packages` attribute, allows writing "public" or "private" to refer to all packages or no packages respectively.
default: "true"
build file_semantics
incompatible change
--incompatible_remove_rule_name_parameter=<true or false>
If set to true, `rule` can't be called with the `name` parameter.
default: "true"
loading and_analysis
incompatible change
--incompatible_require_linker_input_cc_api=<true or false>
If set to true, rule create_linking_context will require linker_inputs instead of libraries_to_link. The old getters of linking_context will also be disabled and just linker_inputs will be available.
default: "true"
build file_semantics
loading and_analysis
incompatible change
--incompatible_run_shell_command_string=<true or false>
If set to true, the command parameter of actions.run_shell will only accept string
default: "true"
build file_semantics
incompatible change
--incompatible_stop_exporting_language_modules=<true or false>
If enabled, certain language-specific modules (such as `cc_common`) are unavailable in user .bzl files and may only be called from their respective rules repositories.
default: "false"
loading and_analysis
incompatible change
--incompatible_struct_has_no_methods=<true or false>
Disables the to_json and to_proto methods of struct, which pollute the struct field namespace. Instead, use json.encode or json.encode_indent for JSON, or proto.encode_text for textproto.
default: "false"
build file_semantics
incompatible change
--incompatible_top_level_aspects_require_providers=<true or false>
If set to true, the top level aspect will honor its required providers and only run on top level targets whose rules' advertised providers satisfy the required providers of the aspect.
default: "false"
loading and_analysis
incompatible change
--incompatible_unambiguous_label_stringification=<true or false>
When true, Bazel will stringify the label @//foo:bar to @//foo:bar, instead of //foo:bar. This only affects the behavior of str(), the % operator, and so on; the behavior of repr() is unchanged. See https://github. com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/15916 for more information.
default: "true"
loading and_analysis
incompatible change
--incompatible_use_cc_configure_from_rules_cc=<true or false>
When true, Bazel will no longer allow using cc_configure from @bazel_tools. Please see https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/10134 for details and migration instructions.
default: "false"
loading and_analysis
incompatible change
--incompatible_visibility_private_attributes_at_definition=<true or false>
If set to true, the visibility of private rule attributes is checked with respect to the rule definition, rather than the rule usage.
default: "false"
build file_semantics
incompatible change
--keep_going=<true or false>
Continue as much as possible after an error. While the target that failed and those that depend on it cannot be analyzed, other prerequisites of these targets can be.
default: "false"
eagerness to_exit
--keep_state_after_build=<true or false>
If false, Blaze will discard the inmemory state from this build when the build finishes. Subsequent builds will not have any incrementality with respect to this one.
default: "true"
loses incremental_state
--legacy_important_outputs=<true or false>
Use this to suppress generation of the legacy important_outputs field in the TargetComplete event. important_outputs are required for Bazel to ResultStore integration.
default: "true"
affects outputs
--loading_phase_threads=<integer, or a keyword ("auto", "HOST_CPUS", "HOST_RAM"), optionally followed by an operation ([-|*]<float>) eg. "auto", "HOST_CPUS*.5">
Number of parallel threads to use for the loading/analysis phase.Takes an integer, or a keyword ("auto", "HOST_CPUS", "HOST_RAM"), optionally followed by an operation ([-|*]<float>) eg. "auto", "HOST_CPUS*.5". "auto" sets a reasonable default based on host resources. Must be at least 1.
default: "auto"
bazel internal_configuration
--logging=<0 <= an integer <= 6>
The logging level.
default: "3"
affects outputs
--max_computation_steps=<long integer>
The maximum number of Starlark computation steps that may be executed by a BUILD file (zero means no limit).
default: "0"
build file_semantics
--memory_profile=<path>
If set, write memory usage data to the specified file at phase ends and stable heap to master log at end of build.
default: see description
affects outputs
bazel monitoring
--memory_profile_stable_heap_parameters=<two integers, separated by a comma>
Tune memory profile's computation of stable heap at end of build. Should be two integers separated by a comma. First parameter is the number of GCs to perform. Second parameter is the number of seconds to wait between GCs.
default: "1,0"
bazel monitoring
--nested_set_depth_limit=<integer>
The maximum depth of the graph internal to a depset (also known as NestedSet), above which the depset() constructor will fail.
default: "3500"
loading and_analysis
--output=<text, json or graph>
The format in which the query results should be printed. Allowed values for query are: text, json, graph
default: "text"
terminal output
--override_module=<equals-separated mapping of module name to path>
Overrides a module with a local directory.
may be used multiple times
--override_repository=<equals-separated mapping of repository name to path>
Overrides a repository with a local directory.
may be used multiple times
--package_path=<colon-separated list of options>
A colon-separated list of where to look for packages. Elements beginning with '%workspace%' are relative to the enclosing workspace. If omitted or empty, the default is the output of 'bazel info default-package-path'.
default: "%workspace%"
--profile=<path>
If set, profile Bazel and write data to the specified file. Use bazel analyze-profile to analyze the profile.
default: see description
affects outputs
bazel monitoring
--progress_in_terminal_title=<true or false>
Show the command progress in the terminal title. Useful to see what bazel is doing when having multiple terminal tabs.
default: "false"
--registry=<string>
Specifies the registries to use to locate Bazel module dependencies. The order is important: modules will be looked up in earlier registries first, and only fall back to later registries when they're missing from the earlier ones.
may be used multiple times
changes inputs
--repo_env=<'name=value' assignment with an optional value part>
Specifies additional environment variables to be available only for repository rules. Note that repository rules see the full environment anyway, but in this way configuration information can be passed to repositories through options without invalidating the action graph.
may be used multiple times
action command_lines
--repository_cache=<path>
Specifies the cache location of the downloaded values obtained during the fetching of external repositories. An empty string as argument requests the cache to be disabled.
default: see description
bazel internal_configuration
--show_loading_progress=<true or false>
If enabled, causes Bazel to print "Loading package:" messages.
default: "true"
--show_progress=<true or false>
Display progress messages during a build.
default: "true"
--show_progress_rate_limit=<double>
Minimum number of seconds between progress messages in the output.
default: "0.2"
--show_timestamps=<true or false>
Include timestamps in messages
default: "false"
--skyframe_high_water_mark_threshold=<integer>
Flag for advanced configuration of Bazel's internal Skyframe engine. If Bazel detects its retained heap percentage usage is at least this threshold, it will drop unnecessary temporary Skyframe state. Tweaking this may let you mitigate wall time impact of GC thrashing, when the GC thrashing is (i) caused by the memory usage of this temporary state and (ii) more costly than reconstituting the state when it is needed.
default: "85"
host machine_resource_optimizations
--slim_profile=<true or false>
Slims down the size of the JSON profile by merging events if the profile gets too large.
default: "true"
affects outputs
bazel monitoring
--starlark_cpu_profile=<string>
Writes into the specified file a pprof profile of CPU usage by all Starlark threads.
default: ""
bazel monitoring
--tls_certificate=<string>
Specify a path to a TLS certificate that is trusted to sign server certificates.
default: see description
--tls_client_certificate=<string>
Specify the TLS client certificate to use; you also need to provide a client key to enable client authentication.
default: see description
--tls_client_key=<string>
Specify the TLS client key to use; you also need to provide a client certificate to enable client authentication.
default: see description
--tool_tag=<string>
A tool name to attribute this Bazel invocation to.
default: ""
affects outputs
bazel monitoring
--track_incremental_state=<true or false>
If false, Blaze will not persist data that allows for invalidation and re- evaluation on incremental builds in order to save memory on this build. Subsequent builds will not have any incrementality with respect to this one. Usually you will want to specify --batch when setting this to false.
default: "true"
loses incremental_state
--ui_actions_shown=<integer>
Number of concurrent actions shown in the detailed progress bar; each action is shown on a separate line. The progress bar always shows at least one one, all numbers less than 1 are mapped to 1.
default: "8"
terminal output
--ui_event_filters=<Convert list of comma separated event kind to list of filters>
Specifies which events to show in the UI. It is possible to add or remove events to the default ones using leading +/-, or override the default set completely with direct assignment. The set of supported event kinds include INFO, DEBUG, ERROR and more.
may be used multiple times
terminal output
--watchfs=<true or false>
On Linux/macOS: If true, bazel tries to use the operating system's file watch service for local changes instead of scanning every file for a change. On Windows: this flag currently is a non-op but can be enabled in conjunction with --experimental_windows_watchfs. On any OS: The behavior is undefined if your workspace is on a network file system, and files are edited on a remote machine.
default: "false"