March 10, 2017
https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=17252

          Issue ID: 17252
           Summary: Invalid PATH variable in build script
           Product: D
           Version: D2
          Hardware: x86_64
                OS: Windows
            Status: NEW
          Severity: major
          Priority: P1
         Component: visuald
          Assignee: nobody@puremagic.com
          Reporter: arkay@gmx.net

Somehow the PATH variable contains a garbage character which in turn leads to an error message from OPTLINK.

This gets added to build.cmd:

set PATH=C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\VC\bin;C:\Program
Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE;C:\Program Files
(x86)\Windows Kits\8.1\bin\x86;D:\Dlang\dmd2\windowsin;%PATH%

D:\Dlang\dmd2\windowsin should actually be D:\Dlang\dmd2\windows\bin

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