I can not say it all from my head but it all boiled down to the vcvars32.bat file to set up env variables and creating a shortcut to that file such as to quickly fire it from your desktop rather than have to open a normal CMD, navigate all the way to where vcvars32.bat lies, running it and then go to where your source code is (cd here cd there lol) but if I remember there was a trick to keep the CMD