Building from source on Windows

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On Friday, 28 January 2022 at 21:55:07 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
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> Would help if you posted the exact error message(s) here 
> (including how you expect it to behave) so that people know how 
> to help you.  "It doesn't work" gives no information as to what 
> went wrong, and isn't an actionable bug report.
>
> Cf.: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/bugs.html
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> T

the error(s) depend on what instructions I'm following....

yesterday I was using these instructions:

https://wiki.dlang.org/Building_under_Windows

what the $%@% ... it's so complicated!

I spent hours on it!

when googling about it, all kinds of people had all kinds of 
error messages..

I got some message about ../generated/ .. something not 
existing... which made no sense at all...

I really would prefer to not waste any more time on things that 
don't work.

I'm more interested in whether someone knows a step-by-step 
guaranteed way to build a build system **from scratch** (i.e. not 
adding stuff to an existing system that might cause all kinds of 
dependency problems, and hence you get all these nonsensical 
errors).

On linux, I just git the source and make. That's it.