Visual COBOL Build Tools for Windows is a separately-installable component of Visual COBOL that has been designed to be used in environments where you want to work with your COBOL projects but you don't want the overheads associated with the Visual Studio IDE.
This product is available in two variants: a standard product where both 32-bit and 64-bit sources can be built, and a 64-bit only product that is designed for pure 64-bit environments (that is, it has no 32-bit dependencies).
The following sections introduce Visual COBOL Build Tools for Windows and show you what you need to do to use it and get the best from it.