cl.exe failing with "application was unable to start correctly 0xc000007b"

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just trying to run cl.exe from the command line and get this error. I've run dependency walker on it, and if I'm interpreting the output correctly, I've got a 32-bit cl.exe trying to link to 64-bit dlls...all the dlls it tries to link to are 64 bit. Here's my system configuration:

Windows 8.1 64-bit

Visual Studio 2012 Pro installed (I think this is a 32 bit version)

The other weird thing is this, if I go to c:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0\Common7\IDE and run devenv.exe from the command prompt, I get the same error. However, if I navigate to this directory in Explorer and just double click on devenv.exe, Visual Studio starts up just fine.

Any ideas? This must be something simple.

Thanks.

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