bazel has external dependecies

[theamk]

I am not quite sure what "no external dependencies" means, but it likely does not apply to bazel.

(1) All of the C++ rules accept already-compiled libraries (.so and .a files). For example: cc_library(srcs = ['libfoo.so'], hdrs = ['foo.h']) (2) If you have files outside of your tree, you can use new_local_repository (this can be used, for example, to read system-wide libraries form /usr/lib) (3) And you can always just put -lfoo into linkopts.

For python and other interpreted languages, you just need new_local_repository. I don't know abything about java.

[rdnetto]

To add to this, Bazel isn't limited to local external repos either - it can pull them from git/http.

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