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Last active April 28, 2024 05:14 — forked from mmozeiko/!README.md
Download MSVC compiler/linker & Windows SDK without installing full Visual Studio

This downloads standalone 64-bit MSVC compiler, linker & other tools, also headers/libraries from Windows SDK into portable folder, without installing Visual Studio. Has bare minimum components - no UWP/Store/WindowsRT stuff, just files & tools for 64-bit native desktop app development.

Run python.exe msvc_portable.py and it will download output into MSVC folder. By default it will download latest available MSVC & Windows SDK.

You can list available versions with python.exe msvc_portable.py --show-versions and then pass versions you want with --msvc-version and --sdk-version arguments.

To use cl.exe/link.exe from output folder, first run msvcvars.bat - after that PATH/INCLUDE/LIB env variables will be setup to use all the tools as usual. You can also use clang-cl.exe with these includes & libraries.

To use clang-cl.exe without running msvcvars.bat, pass extra /winsysroot MSVC argument (MSVC is folder name where output is stored).