CUEW Error Building Blender 2.8 with VS 2017

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1. CUEW ERROR

I am getting this error, trying to build latest 2.8 with VS 2017, INSTALL solution with Blender solution as default and build set to “Debug”

132>CUSTOMBUILD : error : cuew init fialed (0xffffffff)
132>
132>CUSTOMBUILD : error : initialization error, exiting

What is cuew ? some external library ?

The build seems to work fne , at least the debug build. The error does not stop the build process which creates the executable and its binary dependencies.
Full output log can be found here https://gist.github.com/kilon/0020adaebab666893017c4db6b3be741

2. Partial build for release build

The release build for some weird reason is not a full build and seem to miss a lot of files, most notably the DLLs, is that normal ?

The release folder contains the following files onliy

blender.exe
blender.exp
blender.lib
cycles_cubin_cc.exe
datatoc.exe
datatoc_icon.exe
makesdna.exe
makesrna.exe
msgfmt.exe
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building with cuda 9.2 by any chance?

if so, please downgrade back to 9.1

9.2 does not generate correct render kernels for cycles,also cuew doesn’t know about cuda 9.2 yet.

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yeap that’s it exactly. Thanks @LazyDodo