[RFC] azure: Move to vs2017-win2016 platform build host

[Bin Meng]

Hi Simon,

On Tue, Jan 28, 2020 at 5:34 AM Simon Goldschmidt
<simon.k.r.goldschmidt at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com> schrieb am Mo., 27. Jan. 2020, 22:23:
>
> > Azure is moving to remove the vs2015-win2012r2 platform build host.  The
> > two suggested new platforms to use are vs2017-win2016 and windows-2019.
> > For now, move up to vs2017-win2016.
> >
> > Cc: Bin Meng <bmeng.cn at gmail.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini at konsulko.com>
> > ---
> > I'm sending this as RFC as it fails to build for i686 but builds for
> > x86_64 and I'm out of my depth on fixing that.  Can you please take a
> > look Bin?  Thanks!
> >
>
> Is this build publicly available? I just failed to find it, having no
> experience with azure whatsoever...
>

Yes it's publicly available and free service to open source projects.

You need a Microsoft account, and in your github account, search Azure
pipelines from the github marketplace and install it to your github
account.
It will prompt you to the Azure pipeline website and prompt you to log
in using your Microsoft account. Follow the instructions then. Good
luck.

Regards,
Bin