Cannot find bazel_vscode_compdb

[haidongx]

The command

bazel build --override_repository=bazel_vscode_compdb=/Users/hdx/.vscode/extensions/stackbuild.bazel-stack-vscode-cc-1.2.0/compdb/ --aspects=@bazel_vscode_compdb//:aspects.bzl%compilation_database_aspect  ......

ERROR: Unable to find package for @@[unknown repo 'bazel_vscode_compdb' requested from @@]//:aspects.bzl: The repository '@@[unknown repo 'bazel_vscode_compdb' requested from @@]' could not be resolved: No repository visible as '@bazel_vscode_compdb' from main repository.

So, it just the the build rule cannot pick up the local bazel_vscode_compdb or the aspect. This command might need to be updated.

[haidongx]

A short term solution I used is, modify the --aspects flag:

• Copy the aspects bzl file to my codebase as compdb_aspects.bzl
• Run the generation command with --aspects=compdb_aspects.bzl%compilation_database_aspect

[wuwenbin]

In my case, the issue was caused by Bazel 7 enabling bzlmod by default, which seemed to be incompatible with this tool. My solution was to disable bzlmod in the .bazelrc file by adding the following line:
build --noenable_bzlmod

[faximan]

--noenable_bzlmod is unfortunately not an option if your project is on bzlmod...

I guess this can be considered as a feature request to support bzlmod.