Building envoyproxy on a VirtualBox VM (Ubuntu 19.10)

Building envoy on Windows

This is targeted for Windows users (who wish to build outside of a docker container - which BTW is still the preferred way to build the image)

git clone envoy (or your fork) on your Windows box
Setup a Ubuntu 19.10 on VirtualBox (try osboxes) -This might help
Map your clone envoy to your VM (shared folder between you host and guest OS) - or just clone within the VM
Run commands from here https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy/blob/4b6e81c112e204ef04445318d2cbfa168cf22ca7/bazel/README.md

sudo apt-get install build-essential
sudo wget -O /usr/local/bin/bazel https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazelisk/releases/download/v0.0.8/bazelisk-linux-amd64
sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/bazel
git clone https://github..../envoy.git
cd envoy // the directory with the WORKSPACE file
bazel build -c opt //source/exe:envoy-static

You'll run into couple of issues regarding autoreconf and something like this -undefined macro: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL

So, now run

sudo apt-get install autoconf
sudo apt-get install libtool
sudo apt-get install cmake
sudo apt-get install ninja-build

and then bazel build -c opt //source/exe:envoy-static again

And then, after a really really long time (in my case 5 hours!)

INFO: From CcCmakeMakeRule bazel/foreign_cc/curl/include:
Target //source/exe:envoy-static up-to-date:
  bazel-bin/source/exe/envoy-static

INFO: Elapsed time: 18380.931s, Critical Path: 662.90s
INFO: 3364 processes: 3364 linux-sandbox.
INFO: Build completed successfully, 4240 total actions
rkbalgi@osboxes:~/envoy$ bazel-bin/source/exe/envoy-static --version

bazel-bin/source/exe/envoy-static  version: 3adf14af5ca9f34221d59d693b173d20b27c1614/1.14.0-dev/Clean/RELEASE/BoringSSL

rkbalgi@osboxes:~/envoy$

References

static binary size too big?

rkbalgi/build_envoy_vm.md

Building envoy on Windows