Dmd's setup construction is a bit weird and has some difficult
issue tracking.
How about if dmd supported, if it already doesn't, some ways to
help the user check the configuration of dmd. It would be quick
and easy to implement.
e.g.,
dmd -showinfo
Target Arch: x86
Libraries: C:\Mylib;C:\Another\Lib\Somewhere
Modules: C:\MyModules;
Version: 2.062
etc...
This way, issues between 64 and 32 paths can easily be seen...
figuring out exactly what sc.ini is doing is easier, etc...
We know it is accurate because it would come from the compiler
itself. No guessing.
Probably a dmd app could be created that does this instead?
Basically I've ran into issues before setting up D because of
path issues(again, the sc.ini file is pretty crappy... littered
with duplicate symbols and different paths with "hacks" for
different compilers and all that(it's just not sain)). It tends
to make me hesitant dealing with dmd in some cases. Something
that should take a min to do can take hours trying to track down
some weird issue simply because of a typo... and there's no way
to know exactly what the compiler is "seeing"... I really hope
something like this already exists.
