Visual Studio 2015 Portable

Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 (ver14)
Drop-in portable MASM and C/C++ compiler

Complete includes, libs, atl/mfc and Windows SDK 7.1A
Command line compiler only, NO IDE, Debug Library stripped out.

Usage:
Just pick and extract .7z archives somewhere on your disk,
you might not want to use them all, here's the precedence
(for instance, if you just need masm, extract only v14_asm):
vs14_asm
vs14_cpp
vs14_crt vs14_inc vs14_lib
vs14_sdk
vs14_mfc
vs14_lib64 vs14_mfc64
vs14_libarm

Setup C/C++ environment (search path / includes / library)
To make it easier, create a batch file such as below:


:: root folder
@set vs14=x:\\vs14

:: shorten the path
@pushd %vs14%
@mklink /d mfc atlmfc
@mklink /d sdk "Microsoft SDKs\\Windows\\v7.1A"
@popd

:: for arm
@set LIB=%vs14%\\lib\\arm;%vs14%\\sdk\\lib;%vs14%\\mfc\\lib\\arm

:: for x64
@set LIB=%vs14%\\lib\\amd64;%vs14%\\sdk\\lib\\x64;%vs14%\\mfc\\lib\\amd64

:: for x86
@set LIB=%vs14%\\lib;%vs14%\\sdk\\lib;%vs14%\\mfc\\lib

:: insert into search path
@set PATH=%vs14%\\bin;%vs14%\\bin\\x86_amd64;%vs14%\\bin\\x86_arm;%PATH%
@set INCLUDE=%vs14%\\include;%vs14%\\sdk\\include;%vs14%\\mfc\\include


notes:
7z ver20 -snl (save/restore symlink) apparently still
not work well yet, symlink to resource folder ..\\1033
in bin\\x86_amd64 and bin\\x86_arm must be manually fixed.

Type: "rd 1033 & mklink /d 1033 ..\\1033" under those folders.


-aa