Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook

Re:Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook by iainmerrick on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @08:02AM (#13866757)

I tried Buck and found it to be a poor clone of the Google build tool it's based on. If you're interested, go straight to Bazel -- it's the real thing.

Edit to add: here's a specific complaint. To run arbitrary commands and shell scripts, you use genrule(), but in Buck a genrule can only have a single output. I used Buck to preprocess and organize the assets for a game, and that restriction made it very awkward.

It's been a while since I used Buck, and it looks like this has improved a bit -- you can now output a folder of files: https://buckbuild.com/rule/genrule.html

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Re:Buck – A build system developed and used by Facebook by CydeWeys on Tuesday March 14, 2017 @01:29PM (#13869579)

Here's the top-level Bazel BUILD file of the open source project I work on at Google, if anyone wants to see an example for a good-sized (~100K LoC) codebase: https://github.com/google/nomulus/blob/master/java/google/re...

Each subdirectory below the root also has its own BUILD file, where you can see the individual packages being compiled.

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