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Add support for dotnet and xplat

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
build-system

Research direction

The issue identifies the current Windows, Visual Studio, and x64 MSBuild limitation and names dotnet, MSBuild, and BuildXL as possible layers. Start by tracing where that limitation is implemented; define the required MSBuild and BuildXL scope, with done meaning the feature works with dotnet across platforms.

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Description

Today this feature only works in Windows with a Visual Studio install and with the x64 flavor of MSBuild. Notably, dotnet is not supported.

Really this feature would need to go into MSBuild, and perhaps even all the way into BuildXL, but tracking it here since it'll likely be driven from here.

Dominant language
C#
Stars
64
Forks
24
Avg merge
1d 14h
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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