Guide for dmd development @ Win64?

[Dicebot via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 5 August 2014 at 08:40:00 UTC, Mike Parker wrote:
> On 8/5/2014 1:09 PM, Dicebot wrote:
>> Ok finally have managed to compile everything for Windows 8.1 
>> + Visual
>> C++ Express 2013 and I am very very happy that I do Linux 
>> programming
>> for a living.
>
> To be fair, I frequently build C and C++ projects with MinGW 
> and/or VC without needing to jump through any hoops, since most 
> projects these days either build with a build tool like 
> Premake/CMake/(Take Your Pick) or provide a number of Makefiles 
> for different compiler configurations. DMD's build system on 
> Windows is just masochistic.

I am most frustrated by the fact that they break the path layout 
between Visual Studio releases for no reason and that cl.exe 
can't find own basic dll out of the box without explicit path 
hint. This has nothing to do with DMD build system - I can only 
blame latter for no paying for every single Windows / Visual 
Studio version out there to test path compatibility.