What is Visual Studio Command Prompt?

Visual Studio Command Prompt is command line window with all required environment variables defined to run Visual Studio command line tools.

Visual Studio command line tools includes:

• cl (the compiler) - To compile and link source code files into apps, libraries, and DLLs.
• lib (the .lib manager) - To create static libraries.
• link (the linker) - To link compiled object files and libraries into apps and DLLs.
• msbuild (the builder) - To Visual C++ projects and Visual Studio solutions as in the Visual Studio IDE.
• nmake (the maker) - To automate tasks that build Visual C++ projects by using a traditional makefile.

If you installed Visual Studio 2017 Community version with Visual C++ environment, command line tools are located in "\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\Community\vc\tools\MSVC\ 14.10.25017\bin\HostX86\x86\" folder.

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