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Houdini doesn't like the dll, can't catch any error but it's not loading it,
I suppose visual studio 2019 is not matching with Houdini 18,
http://www.sidefx.com/docs/hdk/_h_d_k__intro__getting_started.html [www.sidefx.com]
this table is not really clear to me, I'm downloading visual 2017 and see if its gonna work

I had a similar issue to yours but managed to get hcustom to compile. I'm using Windows 10, Houdini 18.0.391.

- downloaded Visual Studio Build Tools 2017 v15.9 (because my Houdini installation file houdini-18.0.391-win64-vc141.exe contains “vc141” and the HDK docs that you pointed out says that it should be Microsoft Visual C++ 2017, version 15.8.5)
- set system variable MSVCDir to C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\BuildTools\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.16.27023
- ran hcustom in Houdini's Command Line Tools (so that the shell has Houdini environment loaded)

inlinecpp in Python also works since hcustom works with the set up above.