Which Visual Studio component contain the MSVC Hostx files?

Question

My .NET solution contains an editbin command in PostBuild events.

We try to create a Docker Container for compiling our s

Answer 1

editbin is part of the C++ build toolchain, along with cl (the compiler), link (the linker), rc (the resource compiler), and other such tools for creating/modifying binaries. That's why you find it in "...\VC\Tools..." subdirectory.

As such, this would be in the "Visual Studio Build Tools 2017" component:

The Visual Studio Build Tools allows you to build native and managed MSBuild-based applications without requiring the Visual Studio IDE. There are options to install the Visual C++ compilers and libraries, MFC, ATL, and C++/CLI support.

Note that you do not need to install Visual Studio in order to get this. You could just as well install the Windows SDK.