Guide for dmd development @ Win64?

[Johannes Blume via Digitalmars-d]

On Tuesday, 5 August 2014 at 17:19:03 UTC, Dicebot wrote:
> 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.

Normally, you just execute vcvars32.bat/vcvars64.bat before doing 
anything from the command line and you are set. Even make scripts 
I created five years ago for VS2008 still work without a hitch on 
VS2013 without any manual PATH trickery. The detailed directory 
layout of VS is not something makefiles are supposed to know 
about.