Envoy: Is there a way to build envoy without using bazel?

[zqzzq]

I want to build envoy in mips64 platform, but there are too many difficulties to build envoy with bazel, so Is it possible to manually download the dependencies and then compile envoy directly?

[danfe]

Yes, there is. I build it on FreeBSD with GNU make(1), the way God intended to build software, and two simple makefiles, one for processing API *.proto files and another to compile main source code. You can find them here.

Dependencies are downloaded and properly placed within the Envoy's source tree by the FreeBSD Ports framework, see the Makefile in the upper directory of that aforementioned link for details.

[htuch]

Please note that any non-Bazel flow is not supported by the Envoy OSS community. So, while there exists unofficial community contributions here, we can't offer any guarantees around breaking changes, documentation, support on mailing lists etc. It's highly unlikely we will support a non-Bazel build system in the foreseeable future.

[moderation]

https://yastack.io/ have a process to build without Bazel they document at https://medium.com/@chintan_/envoy-cmake-adapting-yastack-build-system-for-regular-envoy-547ee7c227d0. Early on in Envoy's life we had challenges building on aarch64 and PPC platforms but the approach was to fix the toolchain incompatibilities in the path. For aarch64 that was mainly fixing Bazel and rules_go. None of the workarounds at https://gitlab.com/snippets/1742074 are required anymore as things were fixed.

[zqzzq]

Thanks! Now I have built it successfully in mips64 platform with bazel. Closing this.