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C++ Rules for Bazel

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Open beginner issues: 2
Indexed issues: 99

Dominant language: Starlark
License: Apache-2.0
Last GitHub push: Sep 18, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 14, 2026
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Header modules: a library's sources do not receive the module compiled from its own headers Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#895 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
Document `BAZEL_LINKOPTS` and other environment variables used in autoconfiguration Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 72/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#893 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
composable configurations for C/C++ rules Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#847 · Opened Aug 16, 2026
Add new `cc_preprocess` rule for preprocessing arbitrary files Open

category: core rules P4 type: feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 50/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#844 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 11, 2026
`cc_binary` prints `False` instead of a Label from `throw_linked_but_not_exported_errors` Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 76/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#841 · Opened Aug 7, 2026
Linkstamping broken on external repos Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 78/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#839 · 2 comments · Opened Aug 5, 2026
Interface for defining compilation outputs in the toolchain Open

bazelbuild/rules_cc#826 · 8 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 31, 2026
external_include_paths adds external repository root as -isystem include path Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#801 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 27, 2026
Question about Clang Header Module support Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#784 · 6 comments · Opened Jul 13, 2026
Removing the default macOS toolchain from rules_cc Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 28/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#754 · 2 comments · 4 reactions · Opened Jun 16, 2026
Autodetected toolchain on Windows with Visual Studio 2026 issues a warning due to `/DEBUG:FASTLINK` Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#749 · Opened Jun 14, 2026
[rule based toolchain] rule based API needed to contribute to runtime search paths Open

category: toolchains P3 type: bug

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 45/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#722 · 1 comment · Opened May 17, 2026
[rule based toolchain] files from feature-gated cc_args are unconditionally added as action inputs Open

category: toolchains P3 type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#721 · 1 comment · Opened May 17, 2026
Rule-based toolchains add unnecessary include flags to assemble actions Open

category: toolchains P3 type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 55/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#698 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2026
cc_import does not propagate its shared_library runfiles Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 68/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#695 · 8 comments · Opened Apr 20, 2026
default builds on windows failing due to outdated dependencies Open

P2

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 52/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#638 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 18, 2026
resource_set for linking actions is too conservative Open

P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#628 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Mar 12, 2026
[rule based toolchain] Supporting exec tools as part of cc_args Open

category: toolchains P3 type: feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#627 · 3 comments · Opened Mar 12, 2026
Misleading toolchain API documentation for requires_true, requires_false Open

category: toolchains P3 type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#617 · Opened Mar 3, 2026
Coverage is broken on Bazel 9 Open

category: core rules P2 type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#613 · 30 comments · Opened Feb 27, 2026
rules_cc is incompatible with --incompatible_no_rule_outputs_param Open

category: core rules P3 type: internal cleanup

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#602 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Feb 11, 2026
Additional output files/groups from actions Open

category: toolchains P3 type: feature request

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#594 · 1 comment · Opened Feb 5, 2026
msvc-cl is always called with /std:c++17 Open

category: toolchains P2 type: bug

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#591 · 2 comments · Opened Feb 4, 2026
Can we remove ProtoInfo dependency from cc_shared_library? Open

P3

bazelbuild/rules_cc#584 · 13 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 28, 2026
Additional common compiler/target tuples config_settings Open

P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#583 · 3 comments · Opened Jan 27, 2026
Allow easier opt-out for `static_libgcc` feature Open

category: toolchains

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#576 · 5 comments · Opened Jan 22, 2026
Create a semver-stable guarantee (1.0 release) Open

P2

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#565 · 4 reactions · Opened Jan 14, 2026
Support for toolchain env integration tests Open

P2

bazelbuild/rules_cc#559 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 5, 2026
Wrong path for clang-scan-deps Open

P3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#553 · 1 comment · Opened Dec 17, 2025
local_config_cc is not invalidated by $PATH or compiler changes Open

category: toolchains untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#515 · 4 comments · Opened Nov 3, 2025
cc_binary can't be passed to inherit_attrs Open

P4

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#505 · 10 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 28, 2025
Avoid fetching `@protobuf` unconditionally Open

P3

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 55/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#492 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 15, 2025
gold is deprecated, but it is currently preferred over regular LD Open

P2

bazelbuild/rules_cc#489 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 10, 2025
Add a `cc_inputs` attribute to include arbitrary files in compilation actions and support location expansion Open

P3 type: feature request

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#471 · 6 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Aug 22, 2025
rules_cc_dependencies fails to define bazel_features (and others) Open

P2

bazelbuild/rules_cc#461 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 14, 2025
request: look up runfile matches given only filename Open

P3 type: feature request

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#437 · 2 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Jul 10, 2025
Plan for supporting MSVC in rules-based toolchain? Open

P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#434 · 8 comments · Opened Jul 7, 2025
Wanted: ability to avoid building redpanda .a files Open

P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#419 · 8 comments · Opened Jun 14, 2025
Fragment flags are not considered during builtin includes resolution Open

P4

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#418 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 12, 2025
system_library failing on MacOS Open

P3 type: bug

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#416 · Opened Jun 10, 2025
cc_binary dep on cc_library#linkstamp doesn't set up include paths correctly for non-root module deps Open

P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#415 · 5 comments · Opened Jun 6, 2025
Add `cxx_standard` constraints Open

category: toolchains untriaged

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#406 · 8 comments · 2 reactions · Opened Apr 30, 2025
When cross compiling: as: unrecognized option '-EL' Open

category: toolchains untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 30/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#401 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 21, 2025
Add C-only implementation of runfiles library Open

P3

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#400 · 2 comments · Opened Apr 20, 2025
Why do most toolchains in this repo miss no_legacy_features? Open

P3

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#397 · Opened Apr 11, 2025
rule-based example fails with linker error for gcc Open

category: toolchains untriaged

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#395 · Opened Apr 9, 2025
I tried using rule_based_toolchain, but I get the error: unrecognized option '-Wl,-S' Open

category: toolchains untriaged

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 28/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#394 · 13 comments · Opened Apr 5, 2025
Windows tool paths should have `.exe` suffix Open

P3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#393 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 5, 2025
Support toolchain agnostic common flags Open

category: toolchains untriaged

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#391 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Mar 29, 2025
No way to resolve UCRT64 toolchain on Windows (fixed to `mingw64`) Open

P3

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

bazelbuild/rules_cc#389 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 27, 2025

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