TargetBackends

Remarks

Two are built in, and a third can be added from outside. That asymmetry is ADR-012's: SPIR-V is the canonical output and Vulkan GLSL is emitted beside it, but every other dialect — ESSL, HLSL, MSL, WGSL — is SPIRV-Cross's job, and SPIRV-Cross is a native library. Vixen.Raven is a shipped package; a reference to the project that hosts it would put those binaries in the restore graph of anything that consumes the compiler as a library, which is the shape docs/plan/01 already declined once for shaderc.

So the table is open rather than closed, and Vixen.Raven.Transpile pushes essl into it from Vixen.Raven.Cli's entry point. ⚠ Names is therefore a property of the process and not of this assembly — a caller that builds a menu from it must register first, which is why the CLI registers before it builds its command rather than inside the handler.

Fields and properties (1)

• public static IReadOnlyList<string> Names

  Names accepted by Create, in a stable order.

Methods (2)

• public static ITargetBackend? Create(string name)

  Creates a backend by name, or null when there is no such target.

• public static void Register(string name, Func<ITargetBackend> factory)

  Adds a backend this assembly cannot reference.

Used by (27)

• ParticlePictureVixen.Vfx.Gpu.Tests
• RavenKernelsVixen.Vfx.Gpu.Tests
• RavenTargetVixen.Fuzz
• ShaderRunVixen.Raven.Gpu.Tests
• VfxShaderEmitterTestsVixen.Vfx.Tests
• VfxSortTestsVixen.Vfx.Gpu.Tests
• CodeGenTestBaseVixen.Raven.Tests
• CompileDriverVixen.Raven.Cli
• CompiledEffectTestsVixen.Raven.Tests
• ComposeInterfaceTestsVixen.Raven.Tests
• ComposeTestsVixen.Raven.Tests
• CrossCompilationTestsVixen.Raven.Transpile.Tests
• EsslBackendVixen.Raven.Transpile
• GlslBackendTestsVixen.Raven.Tests
• GoldenGlslTestsVixen.Raven.Tests
• GoldenSpirvTestsVixen.Raven.Tests
• LibraryTreeTestsVixen.Raven.Tests
• RavenCommandVixen.Raven.Cli
• RavenEffectCompilerVixen.ShaderCompiler
• ReadmeExampleTestsVixen.Raven.Tests
• ShaderGraphCompilerTestsVixen.Editor.ShaderGraph.Tests
• ShaderNodeLibraryTestsVixen.Editor.ShaderGraph.Tests
• SharedBindingTestsVixen.Raven.Tests
• SizedArrayTestsVixen.Raven.Tests
• SpirvBackendTestsVixen.Raven.Tests
• UnprovenDiagnosticTestsVixen.Raven.Tests
• WritableResourceTestsVixen.Raven.Tests