Mirek,

Just out of interest I briefly installed something called "Visual Studio Build Tools 2017".

worked with that too (same as VS2017 Community) at least for 32 bit targets. However, there was no debugger bundled -- or I just could not find

The build method names, in my opinion, should point out the actual toolset installed in a way that it can be easily identified, and therefore found and reinstalled, if needed.