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Using tools without installing Visual Studio

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Recently another issue has come up another FAQ. Folks try using tools without installing Visual Studio and some additional work has to be done for Beta 1 or CTP of Visual Studio 2005. Just FYI, this is unsupported way to use VC++ tools and my recommendations are as-is with no guarantees. However if a workaround I list below does not work for you, please let me know, I would try to figure what I missed.

So let’s say you have a desktop A with VS2005 installed. You have another desktop B without VS2005 installed. You want to copy the content of "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\" from desktop A to desktop B to build your code on desktop B. Here is what you need to do (obviously, it is one of possible ways to make this work):

1) Copy compiler and tools from "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\VC\bin\" to "%YOUR_TOOLS_FOLDER%\bin\"

c1.dll

c1xx.dll

c2.dll

cl.exe

cvtres.exe

lib.exe

link.exe

mt.exe

nmake.exe

rc.exe

rcdll.dll

\1033\

clui.dll

cvtresui.dll

linkui.dll

nmakeui.dll

2)

Copy CRT assembly from desktop A to desktop B

a. On desktop A, go to %SYSTEMROOT%\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.VC80.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50124.12800_x-ww_eac26a7b\

b. Copy msvcr80.dll from this folder to "%YOUR_TOOLS_FOLDER%\bin\" on desktop B

3) Copy manifest for the CRT assembly

a. On desktop A, go to either %SYSTEMROOT%\WinSxS\Policies\ or %SYSTEMROOT%\WinSxS\Manifests

b. Copy x86_Microsoft.VC80.CRT_1fc8b3b9a1e18e3b_8.0.50124.12800_x-ww_eac26a7b.Manifest to "%YOUR_TOOLS_FOLDER%\bin\" on desktop B

c. Rename this file to “Microsoft.VC80.CRT.manifest”

4) Copying PDB Support

a. Back desktop A, go to "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\Common7\IDE\"

b. Copy msobj80.dll, mspdb80.dll, mspdbcore.dll, mspdbsrv.exe to "%YOUR_TOOLS_FOLDER%\bin\" on desktop B

You should be able to compile and link your code. If you are not, please let me know about this, I would try to investigate why it does not work.

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 09, 2005
    Just curious to ask this..

    I really dont know whether this is the correct place to ask this also. Can I tweak my Visual Studio 2003 to run the latest version of dot Net Framework, say Beta 2.0.

  • Anonymous
    June 12, 2007
    You are invaluable. I hate installing programs that are as intrusive as a development environment, but I really love programming. Your recipe for getting the Visual Studio C compiler to work worked on my daughter's PC, but not on mine though. We basically have the same install, apart from some silly games on her's, so I have no clue to the reason for this difference. I did get it to work on mine however, by just plain copying the CRT assemblies from the provisional PC with the full installation to my own PC's %SYSTEMROOT%WinSxS (and removing the copy I made, according to your instructions, to %MY_TOOLS_FOLDER%bin). For sake of clarity, I copied x86_Microsoft.VC80.CRT*, Manifestsx86_Microsoft.VC80.CRT* and Policiesx86_policy.8.0.Microsoft.VC80.CRT* from \desktopA%SYSTEMROOT%WinSxS to \desktopB%SYSTEMROOT%WinSxS

  • Anonymous
    July 16, 2007
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