Linker Errors when Building IPPv7.1 simple_player application

Dear Support:

I recently downloaded v7.1 of the IPP and tried to build on my Windows 7 PC using Visual Studio 12. I was able to build all the audio-video-codecs libraries and compile the simple_player code successfully.  However during the linking stage I got a whole lot of unresolved external symbol errors due to it not being able to find the IPP API calls.  I noticed in the properties of the simple_player, that there isn't any reference to the IPP libraries that were installed by the SDK which explains the problem, but confused how I am supposed to build it if the libraries that are being used aren't called out.  Or am I missing something here?  I have attached the build output from the failed linking stage to this post as "BuildIPP7Problem.txt".  Obviously it can't find IPP functions, but how do I know which libraries to use to build correctly on a 64-bit Windows 7 PC running Visual Studio 2012?  I thought this would already be defined in the Visual Studio project that was provided for simple_player.

Alternatively I tried going to the audio-video-codecs directory under ipp-samples and use the "build_intel64.bat" file to build the simple_player example, but couldn't come up with the right options to use in my parameters on the command line by using:

build_intel64.bat "options"

How do I know what options to use for this build to work properly if I am using Visual Studio 2012 or alternatively some Intel compiler that is installed via IPP?   Any good examples of command lines to enter so that this batch file will work?  I am getting an error of "No any valid compiler environment found".  I have my IPPROOT environment variable set correctly, but it can't find any valid compiler and I noticed that it stops searching at Visual Studio 2010.  I am using VS2012, so is there a way to get this batch file to find this and use it or should I use some other method?  Please advise.

Thanks,

Tim