PortableBuildTools

Create standalone instances of VS Build Tools.

Warning

Under Development

Do not expect anything to work as expected. Feel to contribute.

Requirements

• Go 1.22 or later.
• Rust 1.78 or later.
• GNU Make 4.4.1 or later.

Building

• Run make all. Output is located in build/
• Run portablebuildtools.exe found under build/.
  • Use portablebuildtools -h to view a list of commands.

Testing

Rudimentary testing is located in tests/*

• After downloading the standalone SDK, run the tests via build_win.bat.
• View dumpbin header information to ensure the executables were built with the correct architecture.
• ARM and ARM64 targets have not been extensively tested on any substantial projects and may not function correctly.

Information

• The default download options include (almost) everything you need to build and run the majority of C/C++ applications and libraries.
• Use session.log to view all files downloaded with the microsoft.vc.{msvc_ver}, microsoft.visualcpp, microsoft.vs, microsoft.visualstudio prefixes.
• A modified version of (MSIExtract) is used over options such as msiexec or lessmsi due to issues with how arguments and spaces in paths are handled with the alternatives.

Alternatives

• winlibs-mingw brechtsanders/winlibs_mingw
• llvm-mingw mstorsjo/llvm-mingw
• llvm-clang llvm-clang

Tools

• dumpbin /headers example.dll
• corflags example.dll

License

See LICENSE file.

See LICENSE-MSIExtract file.