The trick is that to provide Bazel with a custom toolchain involves way more than just setting an environment variable, because Bazel wants to control installin

The trick is that to provide Bazel with a custom toolchain involves way more than just setting an environment variable, because Bazel wants to control installing and making available the compiler reliably (e.g., what if `emcc` is not present on the system where Bazel was invoked? Bazel solves that problem by fetching it and building it for that system) There are projects that provide drop-in support for custom toolchains (e.g., we use this project[0] in Sorbet to fetch and build a custom LLVM/Clang toolchain for every host we build on (rather than relying on the system toolchain). But I'm not aware of a project that has done that for Emscripten. Maybe it would be as easy as plucking out what we've done in our project into a project that others could depend on, but to quote a colleague: > Setting up a cc toolchain in Bazel is a unique sort of pain. [0] https://github.com/grailbio/bazel-toolchain/ https://github.com/grailbio/bazel-toolchain/