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Oopsie, Visual Studio License expired, so the build server stopped working (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by RonSijm@programming.dev to c/programmer_humor@programming.dev

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

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[–] riodoro1@lemmy.world 245 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Imagine your compiler performing a license check.

[–] BradleyUffner@lemmy.world 37 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] adhocfungus@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] jdeath@lemm.ee 2 points 1 month ago

typical Azure. duct tape and bubble gum holding everything together

[–] Flipper@feddit.org 13 points 2 months ago

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

[–] refalo@programming.dev -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] skulbuny@sh.itjust.works 21 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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