Compiling DMD on Windows: A journey of mystery and madness

[NX via Digitalmars-d]

On Sunday, 21 August 2016 at 16:49:53 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu 
wrote:
> On 08/21/2016 12:41 PM, NX wrote:
>> For God's sake no place in docs say that I need DMC,
>> which is something I figured from make error output. I 
>> reinstalled dmd
>> and this time I checked that box which makes installer 
>> automatically
>> download and install dmc. After making dmc available from 
>> %path%, I was
>> able to compile phobos, that seemed too good to be true.
>
> Might be nice to contribute this tidbit to the wiki.

Actually I just noticed that it *is* actually mentioned: 
https://wiki.dlang.org/Starting_as_a_Contributor#Windows

This kind of shows how an unstructured doc can result in 
info-missing by people...