Windows devs - how are you building dmd, druntime, phobos?

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On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 6:15 AM Atila Neves via Digitalmars-d
<digitalmars-d at puremagic.com> wrote:
>
> For dmd, neither win32.mak or win64.mak work for me at all. I'm
> at a loss as to how they work for the autotester. Fortunately I
> learned about build.d on github, and that works fine.
>
> But then I tried druntime and couldn't build that with the
> Windows makefile. There's no build.d there though, at least not
> with that name. The makefile seems to try creating directories
> more than once and fails.
>
> Given all the above, how is that people on Windows manage to work
> on the 3 core D repos? I'm trying to fix the situation (mostly so
> I can get the dmd bash tests to run there), but first I'd like to
> know if I'm doing something wrong.
>
> Bear in mind I've build all 3 repos repeatedly on Windows
> before...

I build DMD with the VS project (or msbuild from terminal).
I build and test druntime by executing the lines at the bottom on
appveyor.yml, same as the CI.