Based on the VC from DDK 7.1.0 (cl 15.00.30729.207)
It offers only command line build tools and produces
binaries that are dependent only on the system msvcrt.dll
It does not require compiler installation, since its
completely portable and does not write anything to system registry.
See more in Installing section
Open command prompt in project target and call
c:> \<cmsc root>\setenv.bat <cpu>
Where <cpu> can be:
x64 or amd64 for 64-bit Windows
x86 or i386 for 32-bit Windows
This will set up required paths for binaries, include
and lib files.
It will also set EXTRA_LIBS environment variable
with the value msvcrt_compat.lib msvcrt_compat.obj
If no argument is provided default target is x64
Make sure those two files are linked to every .dll
or .exe produced by this toolkit. The easiest is to add
$(EXTRA_LIBS) to link task in Makefile.
Toolkit cannot be used for producing DEBUG builds
because there is no system msvcrtd.dll.
Trying to compile with the /MDd compiler option
will produce unusable builds, because of missing stubs.
For debugging purposes use the compiler that comes with Visual Studio.
The safest way is to unzip the archive file directly in the root of system drive (eg, C:) Optionally you can create a directory that contains no spaces and unzip the archive file in that directory.