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Build tensorflow: name 'json' is not defined

When building tensorflow from sources with bazel I have got error:

io_bazel_rules_go/go/private/sdk.bzl:337:12: name 'json' is not defined

How to add the dependency or import json library?

The code looks like python source, so I have tried to import json, which does not work.

  1. clone tensorflow repo: git clone https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow.git
  2. configure
PYTHON_VERSION=python3.10
PYTHON_BIN_PATH=$(which $PYTHON_VERSION) \
PYTHON_LIB_PATH=$($PYTHON_VERSION -c "import pip; print(pip.__path__[0].rstrip('/pip'))") \
TF_NEED_CUDA=0 \
TF_NEED_ROCM=0 \
TF_DOWNLOAD_CLANG=0 \
CC_OPT_FLAGS="-march=native -Wno-sign-compare -mnoavx" \
TF_SET_ANDROID_WORKSPACE=0 \
TF_ENABLE_XLA=1 \
TF_NEED_OPENCL_SYCL=0 \
TF_NEED_MPI=0 \
./configure
  1. and build bazel build

My environment:

Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (all installed packages are up-to-date)
bazel 3.5.1- (@non-git)
tensorflow branch r2.11
Solution

  • As stated above, 3.5 is too old.

    sudo dpkg -P bazel-bootstrap

sudo npm install -g @bazel/bazelisk