Setting up Cocos2d-x 2.1.4 environment using VC2012

Hi, I’m having trouble setting up my development environment on Windows 7. I’ve downloaded the zip, extracted and opened up the VC2012 project and compiled everything so that I can run the test app (there are two errors but neither I care about - they are in CocosDragon and WatermelonWithMe). I figured I’d also try and run the build-win32.bat but I’ve never been able to have this run successfully, it gives me errors about parsing solution files then says it cant find the binary “TestCpp.exe”.

Next up I tried to install the msvc2012 templates, but this also fails. It seems the directory template\msvc but it’s nowhere to be seen. This means I have no way of creating a new project.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.