Windows Text Viewer in D

[Paul via Digitalmars-d-learn]

I have tried various approachs to create what is listed in the 
subject line - Windows-based text viewer.  I've tried Visual-D, 
VSCode, DMD, LDC, Dlangui, arsd, GtkD, DMD, LDC, and ...of course 
AI.  I'm embarrassed to say that I've yet to get a window to open 
and show a text file.  Could someone point me to a simple 
solution to start with?

Some goals are:
-as little dependency on specific IDE's or compilers, if 
possible.  Just include all the dependencies on the command line, 
if possible.

-long term I plan on loading 100s of text files and having 
millions of lines of text to highlight and filter. I feel if I'm 
depending on big complex libraries, that optimizing the viewer 
will be much more difficult.