Incomprehensible compiler errors

[Stuart]

On Monday, 30 July 2012 at 23:31:14 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
>
> I empathize. The one thing that may be different is that the 
> forums at forum.dlang.org tend to be a bit more responsive and 
> to the point.

Well, perhaps someone can explain why I can't compile DFL?

I'm getting the same problem as 
[http://www.digitalmars.com/d/archives/digitalmars/D/DFL_167579.html]. 
This forum post is over two months old, and yet nobody has fixed 
the problem.

The suggested solutions either [a] didn't help or [b] didn't make 
sense, depending.

>> It's really getting on my tits. Even using MFC is easier than 
>> this.
>
> The irony there is that dmd has started as a Windows program.

I have no problem with DMD. DMD is a perfectly reasonable Windows 
executable. I am objecting to the frustrating way DFL is 
compile-it-yourself and doesn't work; and also the frustrating 
way there isn't a single working IDE or GUI designer for D.