hi
I finally switched to Win7 and VC++2010EE, and on opening the Tutorials VS 2010.sln I always got the following message:

c:\EsenthelEngineSDK\Tutorials\Tutorials.vcxproj : warning : Platform 'x64' referenced in the project file 'Tutorials' cannot be found. Please make sure you have it installed under '%VCTargetsPath%\Platforms\x64'.

everything seems to work properly, but is it an installation problem I should correct somehow, or what?

thanks.

Do you have a Win7 of 32 bits? If that's the case, change to Win32 platform.

no , it's definitely a 64bit Win7.
maybe VS2010 installed wrongly? it's in Program Files (x86)
apparently I can run scripts only as Win32 from VS2010C++EE, but the x64 option is there.

Hmmm ok. It seems Visual C++ 2010 Express does not include a 64 bit compiler. You must dowload the sdk.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18650...10-express

I hope it helps.

thanks I'll try it !

Yes Visual Studio 2010 Express doesn't include the x64 compiler, but it's in the Windows SDK available from command line.

I checked some descriptions available the above link, and as I read VS 2010 EE installation should be followed by Win SDK and then VS2010 sp1. if sp1 is installed before, win sdk installation fails, and the x64 is not available because of a bug, so now I try uninstall sp1, install win sdk, and then install sp1 again. if I understood well...

okay, finally I had the patience to do some uninstalls and installs... windows sdk 7.1 cannot be installed if MS VC++ x64 and x86 runtimes and redisrtibutables of version 10.0.40219 are present. after removing them win sdk install is okay, VS C++ SP1 can be installed fine again.
now got no error message when starting the tutorials, but selecting a x64 compilation results in a build error...