Installing Cocos2d-x 3.7.1 on Windows 7 64bits

Hey,

I cant seem to compile anything for 3.7.1 on VS2015, as I am getting the error that msvcp120.dll is missing.
I tried reinstalling the redistributable package for Vs2015, both x64 and x86 but still… I think the problem lies on me using Windows 7 64 bits and trying to create a Win32 application?, although I understood from most installation guides that this shouldn’t be a problem?

Extract of the relevant error code:
‘ItBH.exe’ (Win32): Loaded ‘C:**\proj.win32\Debug.win32\zlib1.dll’. Cannot find or open the PDB file.
The thread 0x1a28 has exited with code -1073741515 (0xc0000135).
The program ‘[7860] ItBH.exe’ has exited with code -1073741515 (0xc0000135) ‘A dependent dll was not found’.

Do you have any piece of advice? I really wanted to make this work.

Cheers,
Lombar