bazel-contrib/rules_go 0.6.0

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Go Rules

• Go 1.8.4, 1.9, and 1.9.1 are now supported. The default SDK is now 1.9.1.
• Major documentation overhaul (still in progress).
• Rules now support an importpath attribute, which allows import paths to be set explicitly. If all rules in a repository use this, go_prefix is not needed.
• Rules also support an embed attribute, which allows sources, dependencies, and data from multiple libraries to be combined. This is the same concept as the library attribute, but multiple libraries may be embedded instead of just one.
• GoLibrary, GoBinary, and GoEmbed providers are now documented. These can be used to write rules compatible with the Go rules.
• Actions are now specified using toolchains, which were recently added to Bazel. go_register_toolchains() must be called in WORKSPACE in order to make Bazel aware of toolchains.
• Experimental: Cross compilation is supported using the new toolchains. Currently, only darwin-amd64 to linux-amd64 works, but we are working on supporting more platforms. You can try this with --cpu k8.
• Experimental: New protocol buffer rules go_proto_library and go_grpc_library are defined in proto/def.bzl. This is a complete rewrite of proto support. The interface is not finalized yet and may change.

Gazelle

• New protocol buffer rules are now generated for .proto files if other proto rules are not present already. Gazelle will replace the old rules when the fix command is used.
• Rules that were generated by Gazelle are now removed if they are empty. For example, if all of the _test.go files are removed from a directory, Gazelle will delete the go_test rules.
• Some Gazelle command line options may be specified using directives. Directives are special comments in build files, for example, # gazelle:build_tags foo,bar.
• Added an experimental flat mode. In this mode, Gazelle will generate a single build file for an entire repository. This is intended to be used with new_http_archive and new_git_repository once we deprecate go_repository. You can try this out with the -experimental_flat command line option.

WORKSPACE code

To use this release, add this code to your WORKSPACE file:

http_archive(
    name = "io_bazel_rules_go",
    url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_go/releases/download/0.6.0/rules_go-0.6.0.tar.gz",
    sha256 = "ba6feabc94a5d205013e70792accb6cce989169476668fbaf98ea9b342e13b59",
)
load("@io_bazel_rules_go//go:def.bzl", "go_rules_dependencies", "go_register_toolchains")
go_rules_dependencies()
go_register_toolchains()

Direct download: rules_go-0.6.0.tar.gz