Note from a donor

[Bob Arnson]

On Saturday, 28 October 2017 at 01:42:52 UTC, evilrat wrote:
> At a minimum you'd better try WinSDK first, there should be all 
> necessary tools. After all it is system's development kit, not 
> some fancy junk.

The Windows SDK hasn't included compilers since Windows 7.

Visual C++ is available as a NuGet package, which is just a .zip 
file. The 2017 version is ~650MB: 
https://www.nuget.org/packages/VisualCppTools.Community.VS2017Layout/

Unfortunately, it doesn't include the SDK headers or libs.

Bob