How to build a solution with multiple build configuration (debug, release) in Azure DevOps build definiton

Question

Is something like this possible, to build the solution with two configurations at the same time?

Answer 1

The Multiplier varaibale has to be supplied without the $ and parenthesis ()

"Under the agent job of the assigned task, on the Parallelism tab, select Multi-configuration and specify the Multipliers separated by commas. For example: BuildConfiguration, BuildPlatform"

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/pipelines/tasks/build/visual-studio-build?view=azure-devops#how-do-i-build-multiple-configurations-for-multiple-platforms

Answer 2

Yes, you need go to the Agent Job options -> Parallelism -> Multi-configuration:

In the build task you put the same variable in the build configuration.

Now the build will be executed twice, one with release configuration and one with debug.

Answer 3

Multipliers in the multi-configuration build should not be a variable. It should be buildConfiguration [rather than $(buildConfiguration)]and this can be defined as the variable in the variable section with different configurations.

buildConfiguration = Debug, Release