refactor: upgrade to bazel 8 and bzlmod

.bazelrc

@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+common --check_direct_dependencies=off
+common --noincompatible_disallow_empty_glob

.bazelversion

@@ -1 +1 @@
-4.0.0
+8.0.1

BUILD

@@ -4,19 +4,44 @@ exports_files(["LICENSE"])
 
 cc_library(
     name = "common",
-    srcs = glob(["common/*.cpp"], exclude=["common/loglevel.cpp", "common/loglevel_util.cpp"]),
+    srcs = glob(
+        ["common/*.cpp"],
+        ["common/loglevel.cpp", "common/loglevel_util.cpp"]
+    ),
     hdrs = glob([
         "common/*.h",
         "common/*.hpp",
-    ]),
+    ], allow_empty = True),
     copts = [
         "-std=c++14",
-        "-I/usr/include/libnl3", # Expected location in the SONiC build container"
+        # TODO: this is not required with apt.installed debs.
+        # "-I/usr/include/libnl3", # Expected location in the SONiC build container"
     ],
+    # Not needed with apt.install
+    # linkopts = ["-lpthread -lhiredis -lnl-genl-3 -lnl-nf-3 -lnl-route-3 -lnl-3 -lzmq -luuid -lyang"],
     includes = [
         "common",
     ],
-    linkopts = ["-lpthread -lhiredis -lnl-genl-3 -lnl-nf-3 -lnl-route-3 -lnl-3 -lzmq -lboost_serialization -luuid -lyang"],
+    # Approach 1:
+    deps = [
+        "@focal//libhiredis-dev:libhiredis",
+        "@focal//nlohmann-json3-dev:nlohmann-json3",
+        "@focal//libnl-3-dev:libnl-3",
+        "@focal//libnl-route-3-dev:libnl-route-3",
+        "@focal//libnl-nf-3-dev:libnl-nf-3",
+        "@focal//libyang-dev:libyang",
+        "@focal//libzmq3-dev:libzmq3",
+        "@focal//uuid-dev:uuid",
+        "@focal//libboost-dev:libboost"
+    ],
+    # Approach 2: BCR entries compiled from source
+    # deps = [
+    #     "@boost.algorithm",
+    #     "@boost.serialization",
+    #     "@nlohmann_json//:json",
+    #     "@libuuid//:libuuid",
+    #     "@swig//:swig",
+    # ],
     visibility = ["//visibility:public"],
 )
 
@@ -25,7 +50,7 @@ cc_library(
     hdrs = glob([
         "common/*.h",
         "common/*.hpp",
-    ]),
+    ], allow_empty = True),
     include_prefix = "swss",
     strip_include_prefix = "common",
     deps = [":common"],

MODULE.bazel

@@ -0,0 +1,74 @@
+module(name = "sonic-swss-common")
+
+bazel_dep(name = "rules_distroless", version = "0.0.0")
+local_path_override(
+    module_name = "rules_distroless",
+    path = "../rules_distroless"
+)
+
+
+apt = use_extension("@rules_distroless//apt:extensions.bzl", "apt")
+
+apt.sources_list(
+    architectures = ["amd64"],
+    components = [
+        "main",
+        "restricted",
+        "universe"
+    ],
+    suites = [
+        "focal",
+        "focal-security",
+        "focal-updates",
+    ],
+    uris = [
+        "https://snapshot.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/20240301T030400Z",
+        "mirror+https://snapshot.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/20240301T030400Z",
+    ],
+)
+
+
+# sudo apt-get install -y
+# make libtool m4 autoconf dh-exec debhelper cmake pkg-config
+# nlohmann-json3-dev libhiredis-dev libnl-3-dev libnl-genl-3-dev
+# libnl-route-3-dev libnl-nf-3-dev swig3.0 libpython2.7-dev libboost-dev
+# libboost-serialization-dev uuid-dev libzmq3-dev
+
+apt.install(
+    dependency_set = "focal",
+    target_release = "focal",
+    packages = [
+        "nlohmann-json3-dev",
+        "libhiredis-dev",
+        "libnl-3-dev",
+        "libnl-genl-3-dev",
+        "libnl-route-3-dev",
+        "libnl-nf-3-dev",
+        "libboost-dev",
+        "libboost-serialization-dev",
+        "uuid-dev",
+        "libzmq3-dev",
+        "libyang-dev",
+
+        # These seem to be unused
+        # "swig3.0",
+        # "libpython2.7-dev",
+        # "libgtest-dev",
+        # "libgmock-dev",
+    ]
+)
+
+apt.lock(into = ":packages.lock")
+
+use_repo(apt, "focal")
+
+# bazel_dep(name = "googletest", version = "1.11.0", repo_name = "com_google_googletest")
+# bazel_dep(name = "glog", version = "0.5.0", repo_name = "com_github_google_glog")
+# bazel_dep(name = "nlohmann_json", version = "3.12.0")
+# bazel_dep(name = "boost.algorithm", version = "1.87.0")
+# bazel_dep(name = "boost.serialization", version = "1.87.0")
+# bazel_dep(name = "libuuid", version = "2.39.3.bcr.1")
+# bazel_dep(name = "libzmq", version = "4.3.5.bcr.3")
+# bazel_dep(name = "swig", version = "4.3.0")
+# bazel_dep(name = "abseil-cpp", version = "20210324.2")
+# bazel_dep(name = "gflags", version = "2.2.2")