I'm trying to obtain a dependency graph (either as an image or in text-form) from a bazel cquery
. According to the documentation, the option --output=graph
is currently only supported by bazel query
, but not by cquery
. Unfortunately, in our project it's not possible to use query
since it fetches some external dependencies with restricted access. Only using a config (with cquery
) prevents fetching these restricted dependencies.
Is there a work-around to somehow get a graph-like structure from cquery
? The default output is just a flattened list which seems to contain no information on the inter-dependencies between the targets.
If the inter-dependencies can somehow be printed, I guess it would be quite easy to reconstruct an image from it.
The following works: Using query
instead of cquery
and appending the flag --keep_going
to ignore errors caused by external dependencies that cannot be fetched by everybody. Then --output=graph
can be used.
Note: The result might be different from a configured cquery
, but for our purposes, it doesn't matter much.