{
  bazel,
  bazelTest,
  bazel-examples,
  stdenv,
  cctools,
  darwin,
  extraBazelArgs ? "",
  lib,
  runLocal,
  runtimeShell,
  writeScript,
  distDir,
}:

let

  toolsBazel = writeScript "bazel" ''
    #! ${runtimeShell}

    export CXX='${stdenv.cc}/bin/clang++'
    export LD='${cctools}/bin/ld'
    export LIBTOOL='${cctools}/bin/libtool'
    export CC='${stdenv.cc}/bin/clang'

    # XXX: hack for macosX, this flags disable bazel usage of xcode
    # See: https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/4231
    export BAZEL_USE_CPP_ONLY_TOOLCHAIN=1

    exec "$BAZEL_REAL" "$@"
  '';

  workspaceDir = runLocal "our_workspace" { } (
    ''
      cp -r ${bazel-examples}/cpp-tutorial/stage3 $out
      find $out -type d -exec chmod 755 {} \;
    ''
    + (lib.optionalString stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin ''
      mkdir $out/tools
      cp ${toolsBazel} $out/tools/bazel
    '')
  );

  testBazel = bazelTest {
    name = "${bazel.pname}-test-cpp";
    inherit workspaceDir;
    bazelPkg = bazel;
    bazelScript =
      ''
        ${bazel}/bin/bazel build //... \
          --verbose_failures \
          --distdir=${distDir} \
          --curses=no \
          ${extraBazelArgs} \
      ''
      + lib.optionalString (stdenv.hostPlatform.isDarwin) ''
        --cxxopt=-x --cxxopt=c++ --host_cxxopt=-x --host_cxxopt=c++ \
        --linkopt=-stdlib=libc++ --host_linkopt=-stdlib=libc++ \
      '';
  };

in
testBazel