I tried the VS2010 version in ThinApp and there were a number of
files that I use that were missing such as depends.exe, vsvars.bat, and all the
include/lib directories. None of the Visual Studio environment variables were
set either such as VS90COMNTOOLS.

And another question

Another problem with the VS2010 installation is
that since it didn't modify the registry, the autoconf tool 'cmake' did not
recognize its existence and therefor would not let me generate a solution for
that platform.

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