# gmaven_rules

**Repository Path**: mirrors_bazelbuild/gmaven_rules

## Basic Information

- **Project Name**: gmaven_rules
- **Description**: This repository is deprecated. Please instead use https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_jvm_external
- **Primary Language**: Unknown
- **License**: Apache-2.0
- **Default Branch**: master
- **Homepage**: None
- **GVP Project**: No

## Statistics

- **Stars**: 0
- **Forks**: 0
- **Created**: 2020-08-08
- **Last Updated**: 2026-03-21

## Categories & Tags

**Categories**: Uncategorized

**Tags**: None

## README

# gmaven_rules

This project provides support for easily depending on common Android libraries in Bazel.

It hosts `gmaven.bzl`, a file containing external repository
targets for all artifacts in [Google Maven Repository](https://maven.google.com) plus their
dependencies, and the supporting tools for generating it.

This project is an interim solution until Google Maven and AAR support is added to
[bazel-deps](https://github.com/johnynek/bazel-deps). See also 
[Bazel External Deps Roadmap](https://www.bazel.build/roadmaps/external-deps.html).

# Usage instructions

Please see the
[releases](https://github.com/bazelbuild/gmaven_rules/releases/latest) page for
instructions on using the latest snapshot.

To use this from your project, in your `WORKSPACE` file add

```
# Google Maven Repository
GMAVEN_TAG = "20180607-1" # or the tag from the latest release

http_archive(
    name = "gmaven_rules",
    strip_prefix = "gmaven_rules-%s" % GMAVEN_TAG,
    url = "https://github.com/bazelbuild/gmaven_rules/archive/%s.tar.gz" % GMAVEN_TAG,
)

load("@gmaven_rules//:gmaven.bzl", "gmaven_rules")

gmaven_rules()
```

You can then reference the generated library targets from your `BUILD` files like:

```
load("@gmaven_rules//:defs.bzl", "gmaven_artifact")
android_library(
    ...
    deps = [
        gmaven_artifact("com.android.support:design:aar:27.0.2"),
        gmaven_artifact("com.android.support:support_annotations:jar:27.0.2"),
        gmaven_artifact("com.android.support.test.espresso:espresso_core:aar:3.0.1"),
    ],
)
```

You can see the full list of generated targets in
[`gmaven.bzl`](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aj-michael/gmaven_rules/master/gmaven.bzl).

# Updating gmaven.bzl

To update `gmaven.bzl`, run the following command. It will take about 3 minutes.

```
bazel run //:gmaven_to_bazel && cp bazel-bin/gmaven_to_bazel.runfiles/__main__/gmaven.bzl .
```

# Known issues

Currently, cross-repository dependency resolution is not supported. Some of the
artifacts depend on other artifacts that are not present on Google Maven, and
these missing dependencies are silently ignored and may cause failures at
runtime.