There are currently two issues: 1. bazel release 9.0.1 for windows-11-arm platform has some faulty binaries in there release 2. bazel sometimes(?) hang indefinitely on the arm platform see related bazel issue https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/28941
There are currently two issues:
see related bazel issue Windows-arm64 carries amd64 dlls bazelbuild/bazel#28941