Visual Studio 13 configuration

Actually, I did not really understand the installation on VS. Can anyone tell how to achieve it step by step? Especially how to link the .lib and .dll files?

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I had all kinds of trouble

I had all kinds of trouble with Visual Studio
More than one version
My problem was related to permissions and paths
I was too lazy to find it
and
Switched to Mingw
The mingw is pretty bare bones but at elast it seems to work