Pathing in the D ecosystem is generally broken (at least on windows)

[Walter Bright via Digitalmars-d]

On 9/27/2015 12:54 AM, Manu via Digitalmars-d wrote:
> They simply don't recognise its existence. It's a piece of antiquated
> detritus, only used by strange people who wear woolen shirts
> pretending to be *nix users while using windows ;)

?? Visual Studio sets all these environment variables, in addition to the usual 
blizzard set by Microsoft Windows and other Microsoft programs:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC>set
Framework35Version=v3.5
FrameworkDir=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64
FrameworkDIR64=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64
FrameworkVersion=v4.0.30319
FrameworkVersion64=v4.0.30319
FSHARPINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft F#\v4.0\
INCLUDE=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
10.0\VC\INCLUDE;C:\Program Files (x86)\Micros
oft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\ATLMFC\INCLUDE;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft 
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\include
;
LIB=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\LIB\amd64;C:\Program 
Files (x86)\Microsof
t Visual Studio 10.0\VC\ATLMFC\LIB\amd64;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft 
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\lib\x64
;
LIBPATH=C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v4.0.30319;C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.5;C:
\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\LIB\amd64;C:\Program Files 
(x86)\Microsoft Visu
al Studio 10.0\VC\ATLMFC\LIB\amd64;
Path=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
10.0\VC\BIN\amd64;C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Frame
work64\v4.0.30319;C:\Windows\Microsoft.NET\Framework64\v3.5;C:\Program Files 
(x86)\Microsoft Visual
Studio 10.0\VC\VCPackages;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 
10.0\Common7\IDE;C:\Program
  Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\Common7\Tools;C:\Program Files 
(x86)\HTML Help Workshop;C:
\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\NETFX 4.0 
Tools\x64;C:\Program Files (x86)\Mic
rosoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin\x64;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft 
SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\bin;C:\Program
  Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Windows Live;C:\Program Files (x86)\Common 
Files\Microsoft Shar
ed\Windows Live;C:\W
indows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL 
Server\100\Tools\Binn\;
C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Binn\;C:\Program Files\Microsoft 
SQL Server\100\DTS\
Binn\;C:\Program Files (x86)\NVIDIA Corporation\PhysX\Common;C:\Program Files 
(x86)\Windows Live\Sha
red;C:\Program Files (x86)\Skype\Phone\
PATHEXT=.COM;.EXE;.BAT;.CMD;.VBS;.VBE;.JS;.JSE;.WSF;.WSH;.MSC
Platform=X64
VCINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\
VSINSTALLDIR=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\
WindowsSdkDir=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SDKs\Windows\v7.0A\