I was able to get a basic build going with MSVC about 12 months back.
I basically followed the instructions Steven posted.

On 23 November 2014 at 03:32, Steven Yi  wrote:
> Steven Kyne had been working on this in the feature/vs2013 branch.  There's
> some information here:
>
> https://github.com/csound/csound/wiki/Csound-and-Visual-Studio-2013:-a-build-guide
>
> Hopefully he can help further from here.
>
> On Sat Nov 22 2014 at 10:22:18 PM Michael Gogins 
> wrote:
>>
>> I just downloaded the Microsoft  visual studio 2013 community edition
>> which appears to be a more fully kitted out visual c++ 2012 express edition.
>> Will this build Csound and, if so, how do I do it?
>>
>> Regards,
>> Mike
>>
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