Issue with dmd, linker, visualD on windows 10

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On Wednesday, 14 December 2016 at 11:06:10 UTC, aberba wrote:
> I am trying to get a fellow to try D but just setting up on 
> windows 10 has been headache. He's currently remote. Here's the 
> problem. (Note I'm a Linux user and haven't used windows 10)
>
>
> 1. He installed dmd 2 but the command "dmd" is not recognized. 
> He confirmed and c:\D\dmd2\windows\bin is in system path. Why?
>
> 2. He installed visual studio 2015 and visualD(pointed it to 
> dmd location during installation), restarted visual studio. 
> Without creating a visualD project, "compile and run" does 
> nothing when he clicks. We haven't tried creating a project 
> though, just using a D file with simple "Hello, world!" code. 
> Syntax highlighting work though.
>
> 3. He navigated to ...dmd2\windows\bin where "dmd" command 
> works. But "dmd -run file.d" says Oplink error, linker exited 
> with code ...

I had similar problems with Win7 and the same setup, for some 
reason dmd's sc.ini wasn't being parsed, making the linker fail 
to find the required libraries. I solved it by adding the library 
paths (3 in total) manually to VisualD's options.