After installing Visual Studio 2017 (Community, in my case), the following SDK reinstall step is apparently necessary to build with the VS2015 toolchain from CMake:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/45319119/508431 (to re-run the installer, go to Programs and Features, double-click Visual Studio 2015, then "Repair") x-ref: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/17684 https://github.com/conan-io/conan/issues/1402#issuecomment-327949466 https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/101606/msbuild-140-cannot-find-rc-after-installing-vs2017-1.html
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