Info

This shows how to incorporate drake as an external Bazel project, with the necessary changes made to drake.

Testing

To quickly test this out with code:

# Does not work under /tmp, use ~/tmp/${DATE}
cur="${HOME}/tmp/$(date -Im | sed 's#:#-#g')"
mkdir -p $cur && cd $cur

git clone https://github.com/EricCousineau-TRI/drake_external.git
cd drake_external
# We don't need submodules in drake, at least for this test. Shallow init.
git submodule update --init
# This consumes @drake//solvers:mathematical_program as a C++ dependency, but
# also consumes @drake//drake:libdrake.so to require as much to be built as
# possible (as a test).
bazel run //example

Unittests

You may also run most of drake's unittests externally:

bazel test @drake//drake/...

Please note that bazel test @drake//... will cause bazel to puke if:

• The snopt BUILD setup does not work (which it most likely won't),
• You have invoked bazel directly in drake-distro, in which it will try to crawl the generated bazel-drake-distro symlink folder, and/or
• If you have not provided a path to an existing CMake installation path with drake-visualizer.