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you choose x64 in the cmake step, cmake -G "Visual Studio nn Win64"

i had seen a reference to that in a random post i found while researching the issue but it was about changing a file to use Win64. It didnt occurr to me to do that during the actual cmake step. I did so and voila no more win32 error, so super thanks to you! Now im just getting an incompatible API version error which is hopefully an easy fix once i find out where to set that.

Thanks again