KotlinCompile failed: Rlocation failed on .../annotations-13.0.jar when running bazel-diff on Windows 11

[GowsikChandran]

Environment

• Windows 11

• java --version: openjdk 21.0.7 2025-04-15 LTS

• bazel --version: bazel 8.3.0

• bazel-diff version: 9.0.4 (via bazel_dep)

• Relevant MODULE.bazel snippet:

bazel_dep(name = "bazel-diff", version = "9.0.4")

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Problem

When I run this command:

bazel run @bazel-diff//cli:bazel-diff

After a lot of processing, I encounter this error:

INFO: From Linking external/protobuf+/protoc.exe [for tool]:
LINK : warning LNK4001: no object files specified; libraries used
ERROR: C:/users/gowsik/_bazel_gowsik/pulc4ngq/external/bazel-diff+/cli/BUILD:30:15: KotlinCompile @@bazel-diff+//cli:cli-lib { kt: 36, java: 0, srcjars: 0 } for x64_windows failed: Worker process did not return a WorkResponse:

---8<---8<--- Start of log, file at C:/users/gowsik/_bazel_gowsik/pulc4ngq/bazel-workers/worker-5-KotlinCompile.log ---8<---8<---
LAUNCHER ERROR: Rlocation failed on _main/external/rules_kotlin++rules_kotlin_extensions+com_github_jetbrains_kotlin_git/lib/annotations-13.0.jar, path doesn't exist in MANIFEST file
---8<---8<--- End of log ---8<---8<---
Target @@bazel-diff+//cli:bazel-diff failed to build
Use --verbose_failures to see the command lines of failed build steps.
INFO: Elapsed time: 496.008s, Critical Path: 50.11s
INFO: 897 processes: 379 internal, 512 local, 6 worker.
ERROR: Build did NOT complete successfully
ERROR: Build failed. Not running target

I also tried to clean and build with

 bazel clean --expunge

But the error persists.

Request

Could you please help me understand what’s going wrong here?
Is this a known issue on Windows, or am I missing something in my setup?
My Mono repo only contains python code.

Thank you for your time and for maintaining this project!

[tinder-maxwellelliott]

Hello @GowsikChandran,

Thanks for writing in with this. I have not done any extensive testing on windows using bazel-diff.

Are you able to run any examples in this repo here? https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_kotlin

If you cannot I would use a precompiled JAR file like those we distribute in our releases. They should run on windows