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Error MSB8020 The build tools for Windows7.1SDK (Platform Toolset = 'Windows7.1SDK') cannot be found. To build using the Windows7.1SDK build tools, please install Windows7.1SDK build tools. Alternatively, you may upgrade to the current Visual Studio tools by selecting the Project menu or right-click the solution, and then selecting "Retarget solution". Irrlicht C:\Program Files (x86)\MSBuild\Microsoft.Cpp\v4.0\V140\Microsoft.Cpp.Platform.targets 57
Problem is the platform toolset used (Windows 7.1 SDK). Unfortunatly it's not possible to have a single dll which works with all Visual Studio versions, so we used Windows 7.1 SDK (which is identical to to v110 or v100 I think). Not sure if that can be installed on Windows 10. I think the easiest solution is if you recompile Irrlicht. Open the project file and check the project properties. In general - platform toolset - select the newest toolset. Then recompile (by default Irrlicht compiles a release - dll, so you might want to use that as compile target). When compiling examples you have to switch each example to the same platform toolset as well.
There is another alternative - install Irrlicht from svn trunk. That way you get the newest version. That has a VS 2015 project file which uses VS2015 as well as platform target. So you can simply compile it without having to change anything.
In the past we just told people to install Windows 7.1 SDK, but it seems no longer possible to install that parallel to the newest Visual Studio, so we will have to change that in the future. I'm struggling with that mess currently myself as I need different VS versions (spend already over a day on it without finding a solution so far unfortunately...). We will try to find another solution -either kicking out support for old VS versions completely or switching to something like CMake (which unfortunately is also not ideal for us...).
Hi, would it be easier for me to just go back to windows 7 because all i did was upgrade to windows 10, would that work better or should I just try the svn for 2015 first, I'm new to lrrlicht but I know how to program just never tried game programming. Thanks for the replay.
Use svn - it's better anyway. You can find the address here: https://sourceforge.net/p/irrlicht/code/HEAD/tree/
Checkout svn trunk - it's our development branch, but it's stable enough that I usually work with it.
If you are not familiar with svn, install TortoiseSVN which is a svn client for Windows.