I wrote about Plain Windows Development some years ago, but in the spirit of continuing to keep a list of portable installs fresh - with an eye towards software development mostly - here's this page.
- .NET Core can be installed as a portable thing.
- golang.
- MinGW has an installer that runs as non-admin and you can copy the installed folder around.
- NodeJS. There are a few portable projects, but this post describes how to redirect to an unzipped installation.
- Strawberry Perl Releases a great perl installation.
- WinLibs, covering C/C++ with GCC/GDB and clang/lldb, along with binutils and make and some other bits and pieces.
- WinPython, which auto-extracts.
Also:
- scoop.sh, a command-line installer for Windows that prevents PATH pollution and defaults to
~/scoop as a target root.
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