Hi,

I am returning to compiling my Houdini code on the Windows platform.

Have people been able to use VS2012 x64 Express to build Houdini plugins/SOP/standalone application ?

Seems that hcustom is looking for the cl.exe in some amd64 directory which is not present (at least in the VS2012 Express I installed)

Working around that, there was some link issues with _BitForward*64 missing

I have been able to build 64 bit plugins and apps for other DCC so I believe my setup is fine (but you never know)

Any wisdom I can tap into ?

Cheers

hcustom and the Makefiles in the HDK assume you're compiling using the native 64-bit compiler, which is not included with VS2012 Express. VS2012 Express does include the 64-bit cross- compiler though so you should be able in theory use that. However, you'll need to alter the paths in the Makefiles yourself.