Installing PlatformToolset v110 without installing Visual Studio 2012

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We have a Visual Studio solution that contains some VC++ projects, and we've currently upgraded to Visual Studio 2012 from VS2010. In the process we also lifted the VC++ projects to PlatformToolset v110.

On our build server (Jenkins), we would like to build this project with MsBuild without having to install VS2012. But I can't get it to work, and I think it's because the folder C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V110 must be present.

This folder and its contents is created during installation of VS2012, but as far as I can tell it won't be included in either the Windows SDK 7.1 or Windows SDK 8.0?

Is there any other SDK or installation package that can help with this issue?

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visual-c++visual-studio-2012msbuild
Just out of interest, why don't you want to install VS2012? We migrated ok from VS2008 on our build system and have both environments working together. - Roger Rowland
The reasons are for licensing costs and convenience, it seems like an overkill to install the full VS2012 on each Jenkins slave if it's not absolutely necessary. - Daniel Persson

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I know it's not really without installing Visual Studio 2012, but:

If licensing costs are the biggest driver perhaps the Express for Windows Desktop edition could be an alternative. You could keep the installation to the minimum required to support C++ builds.