## Why
Follow-up to #16106.
`argument-comment-lint` already runs as a native Bazel aspect on Linux
and macOS, but Windows is still the long pole in `rust-ci`. To move
Windows onto the same native Bazel lane, the toolchain split has to let
exec-side helper binaries build in an MSVC environment while still
linting repo crates as `windows-gnullvm`.
Pushing the Windows lane onto the native Bazel path exposed a second
round of Windows-only issues in the mixed exec-toolchain plumbing after
the initial wrapper/target fixes landed.
## What Changed
- keep the Windows lint lanes on the native Bazel/aspect path in
`rust-ci.yml` and `rust-ci-full.yml`
- add a dedicated `local_windows_msvc` platform for exec-side helper
binaries while keeping `local_windows` as the `windows-gnullvm` target
platform
- patch `rules_rust` so `repository_set(...)` preserves explicit
exec-platform constraints for the generated toolchains, keep the
Windows-specific bootstrap/direct-link fixes needed for the nightly lint
driver, and expose exec-side `rustc-dev` `.rlib`s to the MSVC sysroot
- register the custom Windows nightly toolchain set with MSVC exec
constraints while still exposing both `x86_64-pc-windows-msvc` and
`x86_64-pc-windows-gnullvm` targets
- enable `dev_components` on the custom Windows nightly repository set
so the MSVC exec helper toolchain actually downloads the
compiler-internal crates that `clippy_utils` needs
- teach `run-argument-comment-lint-bazel.sh` to enumerate concrete
Windows Rust rules, normalize the resulting labels, and skip explicitly
requested incompatible targets instead of failing before the lint run
starts
- patch `rules_rust` build-script env propagation so exec-side
`windows-msvc` helper crates drop forwarded MinGW include and linker
search paths as whole flag/path pairs instead of emitting malformed
`CFLAGS`, `CXXFLAGS`, and `LDFLAGS`
- export the Windows VS/MSVC SDK environment in `setup-bazel-ci` and
pass the relevant variables through `run-bazel-ci.sh` via `--action_env`
/ `--host_action_env` so Bazel build scripts can see the MSVC and UCRT
headers on native Windows runs
- add inline comments to the Windows `setup-bazel-ci` MSVC environment
export step so it is easier to audit how `vswhere`, `VsDevCmd.bat`, and
the filtered `GITHUB_ENV` export fit together
- patch `aws-lc-sys` to skip its standalone `memcmp` probe under Bazel
`windows-msvc` build-script environments, which avoids a Windows-native
toolchain mismatch that blocked the lint lane before it reached the
aspect execution
- patch `aws-lc-sys` to prefer its bundled `prebuilt-nasm` objects for
Bazel `windows-msvc` build-script runs, which avoids missing
`generated-src/win-x86_64/*.asm` runfiles in the exec-side helper
toolchain
- annotate the Linux test-only callsites in `codex-rs/linux-sandbox` and
`codex-rs/core` that the wider native lint coverage surfaced
## Patches
This PR introduces a large patch stack because the Windows Bazel lint
lane currently depends on behavior that upstream dependencies do not
provide out of the box in the mixed `windows-gnullvm` target /
`windows-msvc` exec-toolchain setup.
- Most of the `rules_rust` patches look like upstream candidates rather
than OpenAI-only policy. Preserving explicit exec-platform constraints,
forwarding the right MSVC/UCRT environment into exec-side build scripts,
exposing exec-side `rustc-dev` artifacts, and keeping the Windows
bootstrap/linker behavior coherent all look like fixes to the Bazel/Rust
integration layer itself.
- The two `aws-lc-sys` patches are more tactical. They special-case
Bazel `windows-msvc` build-script environments to avoid a `memcmp` probe
mismatch and missing NASM runfiles. Those may be harder to upstream
as-is because they rely on Bazel-specific detection instead of a general
Cargo/build-script contract.
- Short term, carrying these patches in-tree is reasonable because they
unblock a real CI lane and are still narrow enough to audit. Long term,
the goal should not be to keep growing a permanent local fork of either
dependency.
- My current expectation is that the `rules_rust` patches are less
controversial and should be broken out into focused upstream proposals,
while the `aws-lc-sys` patches are more likely to be temporary escape
hatches unless that crate wants a more general hook for hermetic build
systems.
Suggested follow-up plan:
1. Split the `rules_rust` deltas into upstream-sized PRs or issues with
minimized repros.
2. Revisit the `aws-lc-sys` patches during the next dependency bump and
see whether they can be replaced by an upstream fix, a crate upgrade, or
a cleaner opt-in mechanism.
3. Treat each dependency update as a chance to delete patches one by one
so the local patch set only contains still-needed deltas.
## Verification
- `./.github/scripts/run-argument-comment-lint-bazel.sh
--config=argument-comment-lint --keep_going`
- `RUNNER_OS=Windows
./.github/scripts/run-argument-comment-lint-bazel.sh --nobuild
--config=argument-comment-lint --platforms=//:local_windows
--keep_going`
- `cargo test -p codex-linux-sandbox`
- `cargo test -p codex-core shell_snapshot_tests`
- `just argument-comment-lint`
## References
- #16106
## Summary
- restore the guardian review request snapshot test and its tracked
snapshot after it was dropped from `main`
- make Bazel Rust unit-test wrappers resolve runfiles correctly on
manifest-only platforms like macOS and point Insta at the real workspace
root
- harden the shell-escalation socket-closure assertion so the musl Bazel
test no longer depends on fd reuse behavior
## Verification
- cargo test -p codex-core
guardian_review_request_layout_matches_model_visible_request_snapshot
- cargo test -p codex-shell-escalation
- bazel test //codex-rs/exec:exec-unit-tests
//codex-rs/shell-escalation:shell-escalation-unit-tests
Supersedes #13894.
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Co-authored-by: Ahmed Ibrahim <aibrahim@openai.com>
Co-authored-by: viyatb-oai <viyatb@openai.com>
Co-authored-by: Codex <noreply@openai.com>
# External (non-OpenAI) Pull Request Requirements
Before opening this Pull Request, please read the dedicated
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Include a link to a bug report or enhancement request.
we can't use runfiles directory on Windows due to path lengths, so swap
to manifest strategy. Parsing the manifest is a bit complex and the
format is changing in Bazel upstream, so pull in the official Rust
library (via a small hack to make it importable...) and cleanup all the
associated logic to work cleanly in both bazel and cargo without extra
confusion
As explained in `codex-rs/core/BUILD.bazel`, including the repo's own
`AGENTS.md` is a hack to get some tests passing. We should fix this
properly, but I wanted to put stake in the ground ASAP to get `just
bazel-remote-test` working and then add a job to `bazel.yml` to ensure
it keeps working.
This PR configures Codex CLI so it can be built with
[Bazel](https://bazel.build) in addition to Cargo. The `.bazelrc`
includes configuration so that remote builds can be done using
[BuildBuddy](https://www.buildbuddy.io).
If you are familiar with Bazel, things should work as you expect, e.g.,
run `bazel test //... --keep-going` to run all the tests in the repo,
but we have also added some new aliases in the `justfile` for
convenience:
- `just bazel-test` to run tests locally
- `just bazel-remote-test` to run tests remotely (currently, the remote
build is for x86_64 Linux regardless of your host platform). Note we are
currently seeing the following test failures in the remote build, so we
still need to figure out what is happening here:
```
failures:
suite::compact::manual_compact_twice_preserves_latest_user_messages
suite::compact_resume_fork::compact_resume_after_second_compaction_preserves_history
suite::compact_resume_fork::compact_resume_and_fork_preserve_model_history_view
```
- `just build-for-release` to build release binaries for all
platforms/architectures remotely
To setup remote execution:
- [Create a buildbuddy account](https://app.buildbuddy.io/) (OpenAI
employees should also request org access at
https://openai.buildbuddy.io/join/ with their `@openai.com` email
address.)
- [Copy your API key](https://app.buildbuddy.io/docs/setup/) to
`~/.bazelrc` (add the line `build
--remote_header=x-buildbuddy-api-key=YOUR_KEY`)
- Use `--config=remote` in your `bazel` invocations (or add `common
--config=remote` to your `~/.bazelrc`, or use the `just` commands)
## CI
In terms of CI, this PR introduces `.github/workflows/bazel.yml`, which
uses Bazel to run the tests _locally_ on Mac and Linux GitHub runners
(we are working on supporting Windows, but that is not ready yet). Note
that the failures we are seeing in `just bazel-remote-test` do not occur
on these GitHub CI jobs, so everything in `.github/workflows/bazel.yml`
is green right now.
The `bazel.yml` uses extra config in `.github/workflows/ci.bazelrc` so
that macOS CI jobs build _remotely_ on Linux hosts (using the
`docker://docker.io/mbolin491/codex-bazel` Docker image declared in the
root `BUILD.bazel`) using cross-compilation to build the macOS
artifacts. Then these artifacts are downloaded locally to GitHub's macOS
runner so the tests can be executed natively. This is the relevant
config that enables this:
```
common:macos --config=remote
common:macos --strategy=remote
common:macos --strategy=TestRunner=darwin-sandbox,local
```
Because of the remote caching benefits we get from BuildBuddy, these new
CI jobs can be extremely fast! For example, consider these two jobs that
ran all the tests on Linux x86_64:
- Bazel 1m37s
https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/20861063212/job/59940545209?pr=8875
- Cargo 9m20s
https://github.com/openai/codex/actions/runs/20861063192/job/59940559592?pr=8875
For now, we will continue to run both the Bazel and Cargo jobs for PRs,
but once we add support for Windows and running Clippy, we should be
able to cutover to using Bazel exclusively for PRs, which should still
speed things up considerably. We will probably continue to run the Cargo
jobs post-merge for commits that land on `main` as a sanity check.
Release builds will also continue to be done by Cargo for now.
Earlier attempt at this PR: https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/8832
Earlier attempt to add support for Buck2, now abandoned:
https://github.com/openai/codex/pull/8504
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Co-authored-by: David Zbarsky <dzbarsky@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Michael Bolin <mbolin@openai.com>
