QuickStart guide woefully inadequate

I tried to build tcmalloc on FreeBSD (13.1 amd64). That's with bazel 5,3 installed from the ports system. Result: lots of indecipherable errors (I'll add them here later).

Then I tried on Fedora 37. bazel installed following the first hit for "bazel package fedora" here https://bazel.build/install/redhat
Got a java exception. I'll try again and see if the repo has a more recent bazel.

Impression so far: only works if you have a devops team that specialize in bazel.