How do I get the commands executed by Bazel

Question

I was wondering if there is a way to get Bazel to list, output, display, etc., all of the commands that can be executed from a command line that are run during a build afte

Answer 1

I'd use aquery:

bazel aquery //foo

It's very fast, because it prints the actions without executing the build. And you don't have to do a bazel clean before.

Answer 2

You are correct, you can use the -s (--subcommands) option:

bazel build -s //foo

See https://docs.bazel.build/versions/master/user-manual.html#flag--subcommands.

For your use case, you'd probably want to redirect the output to a file and then global replace any library/binary paths to the Windows equivalents.

You might want to track https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/276 (Windows support), although it'll probably be a while.