BuildXL supports a wide variety of build languages and packaging systems. The engine is architected by allowing multiple frontends to coordinate and collaborate on constructing a build graph. Examples of frontends are:
- DScript
- JavaScript
- The Ninja frontend, which can be used to build CMake projects (experimental)
- MsBuild (in development)
- Download
- NuGet
The main config.dsc file has a field resolvers that provides configuration settings for each resolver.
Each frontend has two responsibilities:
- Provide a list of modules and their types that are declared in the resolver settings and provide exported values for each of those modules that other frontends can consume
- Provide the evaluation of those public values and construct pips for the PipGraph when asked to.