Can you post your errors that your are getting. This will be very helpful. All you should have to do is make a blank project. Turn unicode off (or use the L or TEXT macro)
You would just link in the static libs and headers the same way you would direct X.
Tool->Options
expand Projects and Solutions select VC++ Directories
Under -- show directories for --> this is where you would link in your libs under library and .h under headers.
After linking try to run the samples. If nothing works. my e-mail is
dwestfall10070@hotmail.com