Guide for dmd development @ Win64?

Tue Aug 5 20:20:59 PDT 2014

On Tuesday, 5 August 2014 at 21:48:40 UTC, Johannes Blume wrote:
> Normally, you just execute vcvars32.bat/vcvars64.bat before 
> doing anything from the command line and you are set. Even make 
> scripts I created five years ago for VS2008 still work without 
> a hitch on VS2013 without any manual PATH trickery. The 
> detailed directory layout of VS is not something makefiles are 
> supposed to know about.

If it is only reliable way to get environment prepared, is there 
any reason we shouldn't require running `make -f win*.mak` from 
it instead of trying to configure all paths manually?