Compiling DMD on Windows: A journey of mystery and madness

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On Monday, 22 August 2016 at 02:34:37 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 8/21/2016 12:12 PM, Andrei Alexandrescu wrote:
>> How does that work? Aren't step-by-step documents "how to do 
>> this on Posix" and
>> "how to do this for Windows" best tested in one environment at 
>> a time?
>
> I know when I'm following step-by-step procedures, I prefer it 
> to be specific to my case, not a catch-all one with callouts 
> for other cases melded in.

Some users might just about know they're on Windows but have no 
idea what Posix is so won't know to ignore those parts or will at 
least be confused and intimidated. The path into using things 
needs to be as easy as possible.