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VS2015 minimal installation

Visual Studio 2015 Build Tools

Lightweight C++ Installation in Visual Studio “15”

Building Visual Studio projects on the command-line

Generate a CMake project, targeting Visual Studio 2015:

cd C:\Users\Public\Documents
mkdir build
cd build
cmake --config Release -G "Visual Studio 14 2015 Win64" -D OPENEXR_HALF_LIBRARY=M:\releng\altus-deps-vs2015-x86_64-release\lib\Half.lib -D OPENEXR_IEX_LIBRARY=M:\releng\altus-deps-vs2015-x86_64-release\lib\Iex-2_2.lib -D OPENEXR_ILMIMF_LIBRARY=M:\releng\altus-deps-vs2015-x86_64-release\lib\IlmImf-2_2.lib -D OPENEXR_ILMTHREAD_LIBRARY=M:\releng\altus-deps-vs2015-x86_64-release\lib\IlmThread-2_2.lib -D OPENEXR_IMATH_LIBRARY=M:\releng\altus-deps-vs2015-x86_64-release\lib\Imath-2_2.lib -D OPENEXR_INCLUDE_PATH=M:\releng\altus-deps-vs2015-x86_64-release\include\OpenEXR\ -D ZLIB_INCLUDE_DIR=M:\releng\altus-deps-vs2015-x86_64-release\include\ -D ZLIB_LIBRARY_RELEASE=M:\releng\altus-deps-vs2015-x86_64-release\lib\zlib.lib N:\Documents\GitHub\Altus_Standalone
cmake --build . --config Release -- /m:4

For building a project generated by CMake, and using Visual Studio 2015:

& "C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\14.0\Bin\MSBuild.exe" .\altus.sln /p:Configuration=Release /maxcpucount

See what DLL dependencies an EXE depends upon

# Open Visual Studio Native Tools command prompt
dumpbin.exe /dependents whatever.exe

Offline installation

See: https://www.techtronic.us/blog/post/technology/visual-studio-2012-update-2-offline-installer/

tl;dr: Run offline installer with "/Layout".