bazel-rules

Since bazelbuild/rules_rust#612 we test more stuff on Windows, we don't test everything though. //test/rustfmt is currently disabled in .bazelci/presubmit.yml.

Feel free to comment on this issue if you want to know more or you want to give it a shot. We are happy to talk or help :)

How to fix when you don't have a Windows machine:

1. delete the line with ` - "-//t

See if we can replace sanitize_string_for_usage with code from skylib (existing or to contribute back).
Motivation for generalization- Recurring pattern of sanitizing inputs

yaml.reader.ReaderError: unacceptable character #x1f48e: special characters are not allowed
in "", position 1195

This seems to come from the python yaml reader which incorrectly rejects special unicode characters.
The character in particular is 💎, which kubernetes gladly accepts as valid unicode.

https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+1F48E

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
When missing the libgmp-dev package, the error is not that clear.

ERROR: /root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_root/0d15a96fd12ed9dca003553c71536f42/external/stackage/BUILD.bazel:828:22: HaskellCabalLibrary @stackage//:th-abstraction failed: (Exit 1): process-wrapper failed: error executing command 
  (cd /root/.cache/bazel/_bazel_ro

Is there more documentation (preferably with examples) for using string_list_setting? I'm trying to pass defines to a cc_library rule, like this:

cc_library(
  name = "...",
  defines = ":nrf_defines",
)

string_list_setting(
  name = "nrf_defines",
  build_setting_default = [],
)

When I build this, cc_library rules spit out the error:

expected value of type 'list(s

Once bazelbuild/bazel@c42a457 hits a current release. Though we have to test whether this is backward-compatible with older bazel versions we’d like to support.

Plus there might be need for skydoc support.