@bowserinator(View Post) There is a project file I uploaded that should compile TPT in visual studio 2013. The only thing that could stop you is that they don't let you use "project from existing code" for literally no reason, so you either have to add all the files one by one or use the premade project.
You could also use scons with the --msvc option if you are compiling from the develop branch (although the premade project won't work with this)
To debug compile, you just change a few project settings, the project I uploaded has an option for debug and static compiling (and scons has --debugging or --static options). The .exe might be somewhere in the Debug/ or the Build/ folder, but to debug I always just hit the compile button which will notice that nothing was changed and just run it.