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Support new versions of Bazel that don't provide cc_library by default #16128
Description
Recent versions of Bazel don't provide cc_library and friends by default. That causes an error if you try to link against google-cloud-cpp without --incompatible_autoload_externally=true:
File "/.../external/google_cloud_cpp+/BUILD.bazel", line 37, column 12, in <toplevel>
[cc_library(
File "/virtual_builtins_bzl/bazel/exports.bzl", line 40, column 9, in _removed_rule_failure
Error in fail:
This rule has been removed from Bazel. Please add a `load()` statement for it.
This can also be done automatically by running:
buildifier --lint=fix <path-to-BUILD-or-bzl-file>
I didn't see an existing tracking bug for this, so filing one now. (Feel free to dup, though, if I just missed it!)
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scotthart commentedon Oct 13, 2026
fixed in #16493