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Generate portable installations of msvc

Generate portable MSVC

Generate

• Start x64 Native Tools Command Prompt, alternatively run vcvarsall.bat in a command prompt
• Run cl generate.c
• Run generate.exe

Now you have a folder called msvc that contains all required files for msvc cl, link, ml64, dumpbin and etc... to run from the command line.

To initialize the portable install you run vcvarsportable.bat inside msvc directory or you can install it as descibed below.

Install to enviorment variables

Warning: Generating new portable msvc's might grab files from this portable installation. Make sure you undo these steps before generating new portable msvc's. This is important to know when you update visual studio and want to update the portable install as well.

if you want to run cl etc, without x64 Native Tools Command Prompt, vcvarsall.bat or vcvarsportable.bat you can install the portable installation to the system enviorment variables.

• I'd recommend to move the installation directory to an easily accessible location. Eg. C:\msvc
• Append the full path msvc directory to PATH Eg. C:\msvc
• Create new enviorment variable INCLUDE and add the full path to it. Eg. C:\msvc\include
• Create new enviorment variable LIB and add the full path to it. Eg. C:\msvc\lib
• Create new enviorment variable LIBPATH and add the full path to it. Eg. C:\msvc\libpath