drake_bazel_download

Bazel Project with Drake as a Precompiled External

This pulls in a downloaded or installed binary build of Drake via the Bazel workspace mechanism.

For an introduction to Bazel, refer to Getting Started with Bazel.

Instructions

First, run the install_prereqs script to download the Drake binary package to $HOME/drake/. This also runs Drake's setup script to install the required Ubuntu packages:

setup/install_prereqs

Additionally, if you don't already have bazel or bazelisk installed, then install bazelisk:

setup/install_bazelisk

Then, to build and test all apps:

bazel test //...

As an example to run a binary directly:

bazel run //apps:simple_logging_example

You may also run the binary directly per the bazel-bin/... path that the above command prints out; however, be aware that your working directories may cause differences. This is important when using tools like drake::FindResource / pydrake.common.FindResource. You may generally want to stick to using bazel run when able.