This pulls in Drake via the Bazel workspace mechanism.
For an introduction to Bazel, refer to Getting Started with Bazel.
First, run the install_prereqs script to download the drake source and run
drake's source setup script to install the required Ubuntu packages:
setup/install_prereqs.sh
Then, to build and test all apps:
bazel test //...
As an example to run a binary directly:
bazel run //apps:simple_logging_example
You may also run the binary directly per the bazel-bin/... path that the
above command prints out; however, be aware that your working directories may
cause differences. This is important when using tools like
drake::FindResource / pydrake.common.FindResource.
You may generally want to stick to using bazel run when able.
By default, Python 3 is the Python interpreter that Drake will use when built with Bazel. To see which Python versions are supported, see the supported configurations.