Using bindbc-sdl with D

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I started learning D a few weeks ago and am enjoying it so far. I 
would like to use SDL with D and found bindbc-sdl, but I cannot 
figure out how to make it work.

 From my understanding, I'll need to use 'dub fetch bindbc-sdl' to 
download it, and then run 'dub build bindbc-sdl' to build it, 
before I can use it. Fetching it works, but it always fails to 
build. I get this error: 'failed launching cl.exe /P 
/Zc:preprocessor /PD /nologo ... '.

Additionally, a more general question about bindbc, is it 
possible to skip using dub altogether? Like would placing the 
bindbc files inside of 'C:\D\dmd2\src\druntime\import' work 
directly?