Bazel IDE Toolkit

Enhanced Bazel integration for VS Code with automatic compile_commands.json generation.

Features

• Auto-refresh compile_commands.json - Automatically regenerates when BUILD files change
• Status bar integration - Shows refresh status and click to manually refresh
• Platform selection - Switch target platforms for cross-compilation
• Debounced updates - Configurable delay to batch rapid changes

Requirements

• Bazel installed and in PATH
• hedron_compile_commands configured in your workspace
• clangd extension for C++ intellisense

Setup

1. Add hedron_compile_commands to your MODULE.bazel:

bazel_dep(name = "hedron_compile_commands", dev_dependency = True)
git_override(
    module_name = "hedron_compile_commands",
    remote = "https://github.com/hedronvision/bazel-compile-commands-extractor.git",
    commit = "4f28899228fb3ad0126897876f147ca15026151e",
)

2. Add refresh target to your root BUILD.bazel:

load("@hedron_compile_commands//:refresh_compile_commands.bzl", "refresh_compile_commands")

refresh_compile_commands(
    name = "refresh_compile_commands",
    targets = {"//...": ""},
)

3. Install this extension and the clangd extension
4. Open your Bazel workspace - the extension activates automatically

Commands

• Bazel: Refresh compile_commands.json - Manually trigger refresh
• Bazel: Toggle Auto-Refresh - Enable/disable automatic refresh on file changes
• Bazel: Select Platform - Choose target platform for cross-compilation

Settings

How It Works

1. Extension watches for changes to BUILD, BUILD.bazel, *.bzl, WORKSPACE, MODULE.bazel
2. On change, waits for debounce period (default 2s)
3. Runs bazel run @hedron_compile_commands//:refresh_all or //:refresh_compile_commands
4. clangd picks up the new compile_commands.json automatically

License

Apache-2.0