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A standalone tool for installing the MSVC toolchain and Windows SDK without Visual Studio.
$ winget install --id JonathanMarler.msvcup --exact --version 2026_04_08Run in Command Prompt, PowerShell, or Windows Terminal. Prompts for any agreements.
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msvcup is a standalone tool for installing the MSVC toolchain and Windows SDK without Visual Studio.
The Visual Studio Installer manages thousands of components, modifies the registry, and can take hours to configure. msvcup treats the toolchain as a versioned asset rather than global system state. The build environment is defined by code, not a GUI.
- Fast: Runs in milliseconds when already installed. Put it at the start of every build script.
- Reproducible: Lock file ensures everyone gets the same toolchain.
- Isolated: Every package is installed to its own versioned directory. No registry modifications. No conflicts.
- Cross-compilation: Target x64, arm64, or x86 out of the box.
- Minimal: Download only what's needed to get a working native toolchain/SDK.
Copy a command tailored to that specific architecture, type, and scope - useful when winget would otherwise pick a different default.
No known CVEs for msvcup.
Coverage is best-effort and depends on a winget package mapping to an NVD CPE entry. Absence here is not a guarantee of safety.
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Microsoft.VCRedist.2008.x64v9.0.30729.6161The Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package (x64) installs runtime components of Visual C++ Libraries required to run 64-bit applications developed with Visual C++ 2008 SP1 on a computer that does not have Visual C++ 2008 SP1 installed.
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