# Setting up Cinder with Visual Studio 2015

**URL:** <https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/setting-up-cinder-with-visual-studio-2015/784>\
**Category:** Using Cinder\
**Created:** [July 13, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/setting-up-cinder-with-visual-studio-2015/784 "2017-07-13T17:37:13Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:** ![Guir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/51bf81/32.png) [@Guir](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/Guir)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 5:37pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/setting-up-cinder-with-visual-studio-2015/784/1 "2017-07-13T17:37:13Z")

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Hey there!

I’m new to Cinder and c++.  
I really want to get started but I can’t even get VS to run the examples.  
Can anyone give me some guidance?

I would aprecitate sugestions of some really basic tutorials. (if I can get it to to work… =(

Thanks in advance

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**Author:** ![balachandran\_c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@balachandran\_c](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/balachandran_c)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 7:42pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/setting-up-cinder-with-visual-studio-2015/784/2 "2017-07-13T19:42:32Z")

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Hi Gui,

Could you please tell us what errors you are getting, when you try to compile a sample project of your choice? You might find this useful: [https://libcinder.org/docs/guides/opengl/part1.html](https://libcinder.org/docs/guides/opengl/part1.html)

Bala.

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**Author:** ![Guir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/51bf81/32.png) [@Guir](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/Guir)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 8:18pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/setting-up-cinder-with-visual-studio-2015/784/3 "2017-07-13T20:18:32Z")

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Hi balachandran\_c!

I’m getting this:

![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/libcinder/original/1X/b1a4bef526ee9bb6805666af106d2099ec8712c0.jpg)

I tried VS 2015 and 2017.

I can’t get my head arround the concept of importing library paths or somehting.

Thanks

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**Author:** ![balachandran\_c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@balachandran\_c](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/balachandran_c)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/setting-up-cinder-with-visual-studio-2015/784/4 "2017-07-13T20:23:34Z")

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Can you post the compilation errors?

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**Author:** ![Guir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/51bf81/32.png) [@Guir](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/Guir)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 8:28pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/setting-up-cinder-with-visual-studio-2015/784/5 "2017-07-13T20:28:06Z")

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Sure.

 ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/libcinder/original/1X/e0b667a2aa06573b93d2d298a8386df6ffe69337.jpg)

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**Author:** ![balachandran\_c](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f17d59/32.png) [@balachandran\_c](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/balachandran_c)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/setting-up-cinder-with-visual-studio-2015/784/6 "2017-07-13T20:34:19Z")

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I am guessing you are building your project with v140/v141 toolsets, but haven’t compiled cinder with the same toolset. Please compile cinder library using the same toolset first.

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**Author:** ![Guir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/51bf81/32.png) [@Guir](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/Guir)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 8:44pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/setting-up-cinder-with-visual-studio-2015/784/7 "2017-07-13T20:44:00Z")

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Ok! tried to open Cinder.

this happened

 ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/libcinder/original/1X/8f5cb8b26b0001dfe3b3641dd19ebcf351496b15.jpg)

is this ok?

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**Author:** ![Guir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/51bf81/32.png) [@Guir](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/Guir)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 8:45pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/setting-up-cinder-with-visual-studio-2015/784/8 "2017-07-13T20:45:30Z")

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Clicked “OK”

 ![](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/libcinder/original/1X/103a5d522025ec5be090e36f7dad34088176368a.jpg)

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**Author:** ![Guir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/51bf81/32.png) [@Guir](https://discourse.libcinder.org/u/Guir)\
**Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://discourse.libcinder.org/t/setting-up-cinder-with-visual-studio-2015/784/9 "2017-07-13T21:11:14Z")

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It’s working!

Starting the tutorial now.

Thanks balachandran\_c for getting me setup!

Cheers