I had a hunch and found and dl-ed a copy of 2010... got none of the slew of warnings I had with 2017, however, still the same errors.... here they are:
1>f9_v12_stg2.obj : error LNK2019: unresolved external symbol "bool __cdecl gcEnabled(void)" (
[email protected]@YA_NXZ) referenced in function...