Microsoft C/C++ compilation toolchain is quite literally FUBAR for ages. People have written hundreds lines long scripts to simply try to locate all the necessary executables and libraries. Alas, anything short of full filesystem search breaks at one point or the other.

Luckily, Jonathan Marler recently managed to develop a single-file versioned (sic!) installation manager akin to nvm, uv and similar:
https://marler8997.github.io/blog/fixed-windows/