Overview

This project contains source files to create NuGet packages for historical versions of Visual C++ and Visual Studio. The original goal was to publish packages to Chocolatey, but this ultimately seemed like extra, unneeded work. The packages are available in this NuGet repository.

This repository was created primarily to support BuildExes, a project that builds executables using many versions of Visual C++. Many of the packages on Chocolatey for older versions of Visual C++ no longer work because Microsoft (intentionally) broke the web installers as a consequence of phasing out SHA1.

Quick start

You can install the packages with Chocolatey:

• choco source add -n=msvc -s "https://pkgs.dev.azure.com/edmcman/choco-vc/_packaging/choco-vc@Local/nuget/v2"
• choco install --timeout 0 --pre -y <packagename>

Todo

• Figure out how to integrate GitVersion with the chocolatey build
• Can maybe use MSVC build tools 2019 for VS 2015, 2017, and 2019
• Allow workload customization

Developer manual

• release branch will be pushed to chocolatey
• PRs to release will update the azure artifacts repository so package can be tested. (I should probably change this)