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href="/versions/6.5.0/remote/output-directories">6.5</a>  </span> <p/> <p>This page covers requirements and layout for output directories.</p> <h2 id="requirements" data-text="Requirements" tabindex="-1">Requirements</h2> <p>Requirements for an output directory layout:</p> <ul> <li>Doesn't collide if multiple users are building on the same box.</li> <li>Supports building in multiple workspaces at the same time.</li> <li>Supports building for multiple target configurations in the same workspace.</li> <li>Doesn't collide with any other tools.</li> <li>Is easy to access.</li> <li>Is easy to clean, even selectively.</li> <li>Is unambiguous, even if the user relies on symbolic links when changing into their client directory.</li> <li>All the build state per user should be underneath one directory ("I'd like to clean all the .o files from all my clients.")</li> </ul> <h2 id="layout" data-text="Current layout" tabindex="-1">Current layout</h2> <p>The solution that's currently implemented:</p> <ul> <li>Bazel must be invoked from a directory containing a repo boundary file, or a subdirectory thereof. In other words, Bazel must be invoked from inside a <a href="https://bazel.build/external/overview#repository">repository</a>. Otherwise, an error is reported.</li> <li>The <em>outputRoot</em> directory defaults to <code translate="no" dir="ltr">${XDG_CACHE_HOME}/bazel</code> (or <code translate="no" dir="ltr">~/.cache/bazel</code>, if the <code translate="no" dir="ltr">XDG_CACHE_HOME</code> environment variable is not set) on Linux, <code translate="no" dir="ltr">/private/var/tmp</code> on macOS, and on Windows it defaults to <code translate="no" dir="ltr">%HOME%</code> if set, else <code translate="no" dir="ltr">%USERPROFILE%</code> if set, else the result of calling <code translate="no" dir="ltr">SHGetKnownFolderPath()</code> with the <code translate="no" dir="ltr">FOLDERID_Profile</code> flag set. If the environment variable <code translate="no" dir="ltr">$TEST_TMPDIR</code> is set, as in a test of Bazel itself, then that value overrides the default.</li> <li>The Bazel user's build state is located beneath <code translate="no" dir="ltr">outputRoot/_bazel_$USER</code>. This is called the <em>outputUserRoot</em> directory.</li> <li>Beneath the <code translate="no" dir="ltr">outputUserRoot</code> directory there is an <code translate="no" dir="ltr">install</code> directory, and in it is an <code translate="no" dir="ltr">installBase</code> directory whose name is the MD5 hash of the Bazel installation manifest.</li> <li>Beneath the <code translate="no" dir="ltr">outputUserRoot</code> directory, an <code translate="no" dir="ltr">outputBase</code> directory is also created whose name is the MD5 hash of the path name of the workspace root. So, for example, if Bazel is running in the workspace root <code translate="no" dir="ltr">/home/user/src/my-project</code> (or in a directory symlinked to that one), then an output base directory is created called: <code translate="no" dir="ltr">/home/user/.cache/bazel/_bazel_user/7ffd56a6e4cb724ea575aba15733d113</code>. You can also run <code translate="no" dir="ltr">echo -n $(pwd) | md5sum</code> in the workspace root to get the MD5.</li> <li>You can use Bazel's <code translate="no" dir="ltr">--output_base</code> startup option to override the default output base directory. For example, <code translate="no" dir="ltr">bazel --output_base=/tmp/bazel/output build x/y:z</code>.</li> <li>You can also use Bazel's <code translate="no" dir="ltr">--output_user_root</code> startup option to override the default install base and output base directories. 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This contains a file with the stdout/stderr for every action from the most recent bazel run that produced output. local_linux-fastbuild/ <== one subdirectory per unique target BuildConfiguration instance; this is currently encoded bin/ <== Bazel outputs binaries for target configuration here: $(BINDIR) foo/bar/_objs/baz/ <== Object files for a cc_* rule named //foo/bar:baz foo/bar/baz1.o <== Object files from source //foo/bar:baz1.cc other_package/other.o <== Object files from source //other_package:other.cc foo/bar/baz <== foo/bar/baz might be the artifact generated by a cc_binary named //foo/bar:baz foo/bar/baz.runfiles/ <== The runfiles symlink farm for the //foo/bar:baz executable. 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