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Also, note that (the only place where I don't follow the penglab instructions explicitly) I follow this guide:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library...

The reason is that under RMB>properties>Platform: only Win32 shows up even though I have the amd64 compiler and stuff. So I go into configuration manager>select drop down> new platform> select x64

This seems to configure my VS because when I go to Properties>Config Properties>Linker>Advanced> I see "MachineX64" under Target Machine.

-Chris