diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 2dd0753ca..c3838dec6 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -53,6 +53,11 @@ matrix:
     - env: SCALA_VERSION=2.10.6 SCALA_JS=1
       os: linux
       jdk: oraclejdk8
+    - os: linux
+      jdk: oraclejdk8
+      script:
+        # Sanity check for Pants build path.
+        - ./pants run cli/src/main/scala-2.11:coursier-cli -- fetch --help
 env:
   global:
   - secure: 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
diff --git a/3rdparty/jvm/BUILD b/3rdparty/jvm/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1477b2605
--- /dev/null
+++ b/3rdparty/jvm/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,171 @@
+# This file should match the 3rdparty jars in project/Deps.scala
+
+jar_library(
+    name = "scala-xml",
+    jars = [
+        scala_jar(
+            name = "scala-xml",
+            org = "org.scala-lang.modules",
+            rev = "1.0.6",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+
+jar_library(
+    name = "quasiQuotes",
+    jars = [
+        scala_jar(
+            name = "quasiquotes",
+            org = "org.scalamacros",
+            rev = "2.1.0",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+
+jar_library(
+    name = "fastParse",
+    jars = [
+        scala_jar(
+            name = "fastparse",
+            org = "com.lihaoyi",
+            rev = "1.0.0",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+
+jar_library(
+    name = "scalaz-concurrent",
+    jars = [
+        scala_jar(
+            name = "scalaz-concurrent",
+            org = "org.scalaz",
+            rev = "7.2.16",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+
+jar_library(
+    name = "scalaz-core",
+    jars = [
+        scala_jar(
+            name = "scalaz-core",
+            org = "org.scalaz",
+            rev = "7.2.16",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+
+jar_library(
+    name = "jsoup",
+    jars = [jar(
+        name = "jsoup",
+        org = "org.jsoup",
+        rev = "1.10.3",
+    )],
+)
+
+SCALAJS_REV = "0.9.3"
+
+jar_library(
+    name = "cli",
+    jars = [
+        scala_jar(
+            name = "scalajs-cli",
+            org = "org.scala-js",
+            rev = SCALAJS_REV,
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+
+jar_library(
+    name = "compiler",
+    jars = [
+        jar(
+            name = "scalajs-compiler_2.11.8",
+            org = "org.scala-js",
+            rev = SCALAJS_REV,
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+
+jar_library(
+    name = "library",
+    jars = [
+        scala_jar(
+            name = "scalajs-library",
+            org = "org.scala-js",
+            rev = SCALAJS_REV,
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+
+jar_library(
+    name = "dom",
+    jars = [
+        scala_jar(
+            name = "scalajs-dom_sjs0.6",
+            org = "org.scala-js",
+            rev = "0.9.1",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+
+jar_library(
+    name = "jackson-module-scala",
+    jars = [
+        scala_jar(
+            name = "jackson-module-scala",
+            org = "com.fasterxml.jackson.module",
+            rev = "2.8.4",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+
+jar_library(
+    name = "caseapp",
+    jars = [
+        scala_jar(
+            name = "case-app",
+            org = "com.github.alexarchambault",
+            rev = "1.1.3",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+
+jar_library(
+    name = "argonaut-shapeless",
+    jars = [
+        scala_jar(
+            name = "argonaut-shapeless_6.2",
+            org = "com.github.alexarchambault",
+            rev = "1.2.0-M6",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+
+jar_library(
+    name = "soc",
+    jars = [
+        jar(
+            name = "directories",
+            org = "io.github.soc",
+            rev = "5",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
+
+jar_library(
+    name = "scala-native",
+    jars = [
+        jar(
+            name = "nativelib_native0.3_2.11",
+            org = "org.scala-native",
+            rev = "0.3.3",
+        ),
+        jar(
+            name = "tools_2.11",
+            org = "io.get-coursier.scala-native",
+            rev = "0.3.0-coursier-1",
+        ),
+    ],
+)
diff --git a/DEVELOPMENT.md b/DEVELOPMENT.md
index 21d82b7ef..4cf5c2b1d 100644
--- a/DEVELOPMENT.md
+++ b/DEVELOPMENT.md
@@ -137,3 +137,23 @@ Then run the proxy ITs with
 ```
 $ sbt ++2.12.4 proxy-tests/it:test
 ```
+
+### Build with Pants
+
+[Pants](https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants) build tool is also added to an experimental path to build the software
+
+Currently only the CLI command can be built via Pants with Scala 2.11.11.
+
+To iterate on code changes:
+
+```
+./pants run cli/src/main/scala-2.11:coursier-cli -- fetch --help
+```
+
+To build a distributable binary
+```
+./pants run cli/src/main/scala-2.11:coursier-cli
+
+# Artifact will be placed under dist/
+java -jar dist/coursier-cli.jar fetch --help
+```
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/cache/src/main/scala/BUILD b/cache/src/main/scala/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..76a035d6d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cache/src/main/scala/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+scala_library(
+    name = "cache",
+    dependencies = [
+        "core:core",
+        "3rdparty/jvm:scalaz-concurrent",
+        "paths/src/main/java:paths",
+    ],
+    sources = rglobs("*.scala"),
+)
diff --git a/cli/src/main/scala-2.11/BUILD b/cli/src/main/scala-2.11/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9fbe4db85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cli/src/main/scala-2.11/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+scala_library(
+    name = "cli",
+    dependencies = [
+        "3rdparty/jvm:argonaut-shapeless",
+        "3rdparty/jvm:caseapp",
+        "core:core",
+        "cache/src/main/scala:cache",
+        "extra/src/main/scala/coursier/extra:extra",
+        "extra/src/main/scala-2.11/coursier/extra:native",
+    ],
+    sources = rglobs("*.scala"),
+)
+
+jvm_binary(
+    name = "coursier-cli",
+    basename = "coursier-cli",
+    dependencies = [
+        ":cli",
+    ],
+    main = "coursier.cli.Coursier",
+)
diff --git a/core/BUILD b/core/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..677c721d6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+scala_library(
+    name = "core",
+    dependencies = [
+        "3rdparty/jvm:fastParse",
+        "3rdparty/jvm:scalaz-core",
+        "3rdparty/jvm:jsoup",
+        # TODO(wisechengyi) for some reason there is no compile error
+        # and this is needed at runtime.
+        "3rdparty/jvm:scala-xml",
+    ],
+    sources = rglobs("jvm/*.scala", "shared/*.scala"),
+)
diff --git a/core/jvm/src/main/scala/coursier/util/Properties.scala b/core/jvm/src/main/scala/coursier/util/Properties.scala
index a742e6e53..de6f64273 100644
--- a/core/jvm/src/main/scala/coursier/util/Properties.scala
+++ b/core/jvm/src/main/scala/coursier/util/Properties.scala
@@ -6,11 +6,16 @@ object Properties {
 
   private lazy val props = {
     val p = new JProperties()
-    p.load(
-      getClass
-        .getClassLoader
-        .getResourceAsStream("coursier/coursier.properties")
-    )
+    try {
+      p.load(
+        getClass
+          .getClassLoader
+          .getResourceAsStream("coursier/coursier.properties")
+      )
+    }
+    catch  {
+      case e: NullPointerException =>
+    }
     p
   }
 
diff --git a/extra/src/main/scala-2.11/coursier/extra/BUILD b/extra/src/main/scala-2.11/coursier/extra/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..3c7ed9318
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/src/main/scala-2.11/coursier/extra/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+scala_library(
+    name = "native",
+    dependencies = [
+        "3rdparty/jvm:scala-native",
+        "core:core",
+    ],
+    sources = rglobs("*.scala"),
+)
diff --git a/extra/src/main/scala/coursier/extra/BUILD b/extra/src/main/scala/coursier/extra/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..41982a808
--- /dev/null
+++ b/extra/src/main/scala/coursier/extra/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+scala_library(
+    name = "extra",
+    dependencies = [
+        "core:core",
+    ],
+    sources = rglobs("*.scala"),
+)
diff --git a/pants b/pants
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..b2f6b4f7a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pants
@@ -0,0 +1,102 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+# Copyright 2015 Pants project contributors (see CONTRIBUTORS.md).
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (see LICENSE).
+
+# =============================== NOTE ===============================
+# This pants bootstrap script comes from the pantsbuild/setup
+# project and is intended to be checked into your code repository so
+# that any developer can check out your code and be building it with
+# pants with no prior setup needed.
+#
+# You can learn more here: https://pantsbuild.github.io/setup
+# ====================================================================
+
+set -e
+
+PYTHON=${PYTHON:-$(which python2.7)}
+
+PANTS_HOME="${PANTS_HOME:-${HOME}/.cache/pants/setup}"
+PANTS_BOOTSTRAP="${PANTS_HOME}/bootstrap-$(uname -s)-$(uname -m)"
+
+VENV_VERSION=15.0.2
+
+# This requirement is installed before pantsbuild.pants to hack around
+# interpreters that have newer setuptools already installed, effectively
+# re-installing an older setuptools and pinning low to a version known to be 
+# ingestable by both pants and pex for all reasonable versions of pants.
+# See:
+#   https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/3948
+#   https://github.com/pantsbuild/setup/issues/14
+#   https://github.com/pantsbuild/setup/issues/19
+SETUPTOOLS_REQUIREMENT="setuptools==5.4.1"
+
+VENV_PACKAGE=virtualenv-${VENV_VERSION}
+VENV_TARBALL=${VENV_PACKAGE}.tar.gz
+
+# The high-level flow:
+# 1.) Grab pants version from pants.ini or default to latest.
+# 2.) Check for a venv via a naming/path convention and execute if found.
+# 3.) Otherwise create venv and re-exec self.
+#
+# After that pants itself will handle making sure any requested plugins
+# are installed and up to date.
+
+function tempdir {
+  mktemp -d "$1"/pants.XXXXXX
+}
+
+# TODO(John Sirois): GC race loser tmp dirs leftover from bootstrap_XXX
+# functions.  Any tmp dir w/o a symlink pointing to it can go.
+
+function bootstrap_venv {
+  if [[ ! -d "${PANTS_BOOTSTRAP}/${VENV_PACKAGE}" ]]
+  then
+    (
+      mkdir -p "${PANTS_BOOTSTRAP}" && \
+      staging_dir=$(tempdir "${PANTS_BOOTSTRAP}") && \
+      cd "${staging_dir}" && \
+      curl -LO https://pypi.io/packages/source/v/virtualenv/${VENV_TARBALL} && \
+      tar -xzf ${VENV_TARBALL} && \
+      ln -s "${staging_dir}/${VENV_PACKAGE}" "${staging_dir}/latest" && \
+      mv "${staging_dir}/latest" "${PANTS_BOOTSTRAP}/${VENV_PACKAGE}"
+    ) 1>&2
+  fi
+  echo "${PANTS_BOOTSTRAP}/${VENV_PACKAGE}"
+}
+
+function bootstrap_pants {
+  pants_requirement="pantsbuild.pants"
+  pants_version=$(
+    grep -E "^[[:space:]]*pants_version" pants.ini 2>/dev/null | \
+      cut -f2 -d: | tr -d " "
+  )
+  if [[ -n "${pants_version}" ]]
+  then
+    pants_requirement="${pants_requirement}==${pants_version}"
+  else
+    pants_version="unspecified"
+  fi
+
+  if [[ ! -d "${PANTS_BOOTSTRAP}/${pants_version}" ]]
+  then
+    (
+      # NB: We setup the virtualenv with no setuptools to ensure our
+      # ${SETUPTOOLS_REQUIREMENT} wins.
+      venv_path="$(bootstrap_venv)" && \
+      staging_dir=$(tempdir "${PANTS_BOOTSTRAP}") && \
+      "${PYTHON}" "${venv_path}/virtualenv.py" --no-setuptools --no-download \
+        "${staging_dir}/install" && \
+      "${staging_dir}/install/bin/python" \
+        "${staging_dir}/install/bin/pip" install \
+          "${SETUPTOOLS_REQUIREMENT}" && \
+      "${staging_dir}/install/bin/python" \
+        "${staging_dir}/install/bin/pip" install \
+          "${pants_requirement}" && \
+      ln -s "${staging_dir}/install" "${staging_dir}/${pants_version}" && \
+      mv "${staging_dir}/${pants_version}" "${PANTS_BOOTSTRAP}/${pants_version}"
+    ) 1>&2
+  fi
+  echo "${PANTS_BOOTSTRAP}/${pants_version}"
+}
+pants_dir=$(bootstrap_pants) && \
+exec "${pants_dir}/bin/python" "${pants_dir}/bin/pants" "$@"
diff --git a/pants.ini b/pants.ini
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ce4c61fb6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pants.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+[GLOBAL]
+pants_version: 1.2.1
+
+[jvm]
+options: ['-Xmx4g', '-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=256m']
+
+[scala-platform]
+version: 2.11
+
+[jvm-platform]
+default_platform: java8
+platforms: {
+    'java6': {'source': '6', 'target': '6', 'args': [] },
+    'java7': {'source': '7', 'target': '7', 'args': [] },
+    'java8': {'source': '8', 'target': '8', 'args': [] },
+  }
+
+[compile.scalafmt]
+skip: True
+
+[compile.zinc]
+jvm_options: [
+    '-Xss10M', '-Xms5500m', '-Xmx5500m', '-XX:MaxMetaspaceSize=512m', '-XX:+UseParallelOldGC', '-XX:ParallelGCThreads=4',
+    '-XX:NewSize=2000m', '-XX:NewRatio=2', '-XX:SurvivorRatio=8',
+
+    # TODO: Remove after https://github.com/pantsbuild/pants/issues/4477 is pulled in.
+    '-Dzinc.analysis.cache.limit=5000',
+  ]
diff --git a/paths/src/main/java/BUILD b/paths/src/main/java/BUILD
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..755a4b132
--- /dev/null
+++ b/paths/src/main/java/BUILD
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+java_library(
+    name = "paths",
+    dependencies = [
+        "3rdparty/jvm:soc",
+    ],
+    sources = rglobs("*.java"),
+)