Pigweed Blog #7: BazelCon 2024#
Published on 2024-12-13 by Ted Pudlik
Pigweed core team members attended BazelCon 2024. We had a great time, learned a lot, connected with the broader Bazel community—and gave two talks about our work on Bazel and Pigweed!
Creating C++ toolchains easily#
By Armando Montanez (Pigweed) and Matt Stark (Google).
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Abstract#
Dive into the new rules_cc mechanism for defining C++ toolchains. The new
mechanism (which we contributed) is simpler, safer, more explicit, and more
modular than the previous mechanism. It also removes confusing concepts such as
compile_files.
Further reading#
See Pigweed Blog #6: Shaping a better future for Bazel C/C++ toolchains for more about this work!
Pigweed and Bazel for embedded development#
By Ted Pudlik (Pigweed).
Video#
Abstract#
Pigweed is an open-source collection of embedded libraries. We aim to make Bazel the best build system for developing microcontroller firmware. In this talk, I’ll discuss how Pigweed leverages Bazel’s build configuration APIs and platforms to solve common problems in building embedded firmware: building binaries for multiple cores in one Bazel invocation, compiling flasher scripts that embed the firmware, creating libraries with platform-specific implementations, and more!