Oh no, not just my build server, Microsofts build server… Everyones’ Azure build server - (if you’re building on windows)

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Imagine your compiler performing a license check.

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pretty sure it’s been a thing since even before free compilers

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People forget that compilers used to be commonly proprietary and commercially licensed. Heck, I’m born on the 90s and knew that 😂

So so glad free and open source software took over though

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It’s not using just the compiler. This agent is configured to use the full version of Visual Studio for some reason, and building through that, which requires a license. You can build via the msbuild system, which doesn’t require a license.

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It gets worse if you use Microsoft D365 AX products. Then you have to provision an entire Build server for builds which has to run Visual Studio 2019 on Windows 10. To do a build you run a pipeline in Azure DevOps, which runs the compiler in a full Visual Studio 2019 environment, which has to run on a special Azure virtual environment running Windows 10 hosted by Microsoft. It’s so fragile.

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typical Azure. duct tape and bubble gum holding everything together

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There are companies selling a relabeled GCC with the O flags behind the license check.

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