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Compiling 64 bit Blender with VisualStudio 2010 Express

Requirements

(for CUDA to work) "Copy C:\Program Files\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.1\Bin\SetEnv.cmd" to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\bin\amd64\vcvars64.bat"
Check out blender win64 libs from svn
Add vs2010 libs from ftp://ftp.blender.org/incoming/vs2010libs64_2.zip
Check out blender from svn
Apply this patch: http://projects.blender.org/tracker/download.php/9/127/28305/18876/vs2010expr_64bit_dec30.diff
Run cmake and choose vc 2010 64-bit
Open solution in vc++ 2010 expr and build :)