How to compile my DMD fork?

[Max Haughton]

On Friday, 14 June 2019 at 18:07:11 UTC, Q. Schroll wrote:
> Basically the headline. I want to try to implement my DIP. I've 
> already forked DMD from GitHub. Now, what would I have to do in 
> order to get a D compiler with my changes?
>
> I have Windows on x86-64 and Visual Studio on my machine.

It might just be a quirk of my install (but It happened recently 
enough ago that it's worth mentioning) but if you get a really 
cryptic error message about some msbuild dll being missing you 
need to find the configuration option and manually set it to the 
dll actually present.