[🐛 Bug]: bazel build failing on Windows

What happened?

Hi, I’m trying to set up my local ENV after cloning the Selenium repo. While running the following command: bazel build //dotnet/test/common:chrome it fails with the relevant log output below .

How can we reproduce the issue?

I've followed the following guide: http://jimevansmusic.blogspot.com/2020/04/setting-up-windows-development.html
and run this command: 'bazel build //dotnet/test/common:chrome`

Relevant log output

ERROR: C:/users/dor-b/_bazel_dor-b/xrjmyool/external/netcore-sdk-windows/BUILD.bazel:22:10: Compiling external/netcore-sdk-windows/main-cc.main.cc [for host] failed: (Exit -1): cl.exe failed: error executing command
  cd /d C:/users/dor-b/_bazel_dor-b/xrjmyool/execroot/selenium
  SET INCLUDE=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\ATLMFC\include;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Auxiliary\VS\include;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\include\10.0.20348.0\ucrt;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.20348.0\\um;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.20348.0\\shared;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.20348.0\\winrt;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\\include\10.0.20348.0\\cppwinrt;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\NETFXSDK\4.8\include\um
    SET PATH=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\bin\HostX64\x64;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\VCPackages;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TestWindow;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\MSBuild\Current\bin\Roslyn;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Team Tools\Performance Tools\x64;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Team Tools\Performance Tools;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v10.0A\bin\NETFX 4.8 Tools\x64\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\FSharp\Tools;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\10.0.20348.0\\x64;C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Kits\10\bin\\x64;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\\MSBuild\Current\Bin\amd64;C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\IDE\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\Tools\;;C:\WINDOWS\system32;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\CMake\CMake\bin;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\CMake\Ninja;C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\Common7\IDE\VC\Linux\bin\ConnectionManagerExe
    SET PWD=/proc/self/cwd
    SET TEMP=C:\Users\Dor-B\AppData\Local\Temp
    SET TMP=C:\Users\Dor-B\AppData\Local\Temp
  C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\bin\HostX64\x64\cl.exe /nologo /DCOMPILER_MSVC /DNOMINMAX /D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0601 /D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE /D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS /bigobj /Zm500 /EHsc /wd4351 /wd4291 /wd4250 /wd4996 /Iexternal/netcore-sdk-windows /Ibazel-out/host/bin/external/netcore-sdk-windows /Iexternal/bazel_tools /Ibazel-out/host/bin/external/bazel_tools /showIncludes /MD /O2 /Oy- /DNDEBUG /wd4117 -D__DATE__="redacted" -D__TIMESTAMP__="redacted" -D__TIME__="redacted" /Gy /Gw /Fobazel-out/host/bin/external/netcore-sdk-windows/_objs/dotnetw/main-cc.main.obj /c bazel-out/host/bin/external/netcore-sdk-windows/main-cc.main.cc
# Configuration: 2374fec5ef31ff2407690734dae8ccf7ab4a614d38e9b25881e2c19130a3aab3
# Execution platform: @local_config_platform//:host
Action failed to execute: java.io.IOException: ERROR: src/main/native/windows/process.cc(202): CreateProcessW("C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.33.31629\bin\HostX64\x64\cl.exe" /nologo /DCOMPILER_MSVC /DNOMINMAX /D_WIN32_WINNT=0x0601 /D_CRT_SECURE_NO_DEPRECATE /D_CRT_SECURE_NO_WARNINGS /bigobj /Zm500 /EHsc /wd4351 /wd4291 /wd4250 /wd4996 /Iexternal/netcore-sdk-windows /Ibazel-out/host/bin/external/netcore-sdk-windows /Iexternal/bazel_tools /Ibazel-out/host/bin/external/bazel_tools /showIncludes /MD /O2 /Oy- /DNDEBUG /wd4117 "-D__DATE__=\"redacted\"" "-D__TIME(...)): The system cannot find the file specified.
 (error: 2)

Operating System

Microsoft Windows 10 Pro 10.0.19045 Build 19045

Selenium version

dotnet 4.6.0

What are the browser(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

not relevant

What are the browser driver(s) and version(s) where you see this issue?

not relevant

Are you using Selenium Grid?

nope

[titusfortner]

Thanks. This issue prompted me to try building a Selenium dev environment in Windows from scratch. Hope to have an updated process soon.

[Dor-bl]

With the help of @jimevans, I was able to have a successful build after I added msys64\usr\bin to the system Path variable.