Building from source on Windows

[max haughton]

On Friday, 28 January 2022 at 22:31:26 UTC, forkit wrote:
> On Friday, 28 January 2022 at 22:22:27 UTC, max haughton wrote:
>>
>> Post exactly what you have tried and what about it doesn't 
>> work.
>
> I'm really trying for a different approach here.
>
> That is, start from something that is guaranteed to work, in 
> all cases ;-)
>
>
> i.e.
>
> step 1 - start with a clean install of Windows 7 (ideally, 
> cause I hate Win10!)
> step 2 - install this version of this ...
> step 3 - install this version of this ...
> ...
> ....
> .....
> ...... then your done! And it all works!
>
>
> My Windows pc has multiple VS versions installed, and all kinds 
> of things as well... so anything other than starting from 
> scratch is just inviting all the problems I've encountered.

I can't help if you don't say what you've actually tried to do. I 
haven't actually worked on D directly from windows for a while 
now so I can only fix things that are broken or point you in the 
right way rather than dictating what you are to do (in part 
because I'm not a slave)