Building D on windows

[Kashyap via Digitalmars-d-learn]

On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 16:24:40 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev 
wrote:
> On Wednesday, 2 July 2014 at 16:06:08 UTC, Kashyap wrote:
>> I got the following error -
>> C:\Users\labuser\dlang\druntime>dir 
>> ..\dmd\src\vcbuild\Win32\Release\dmd_msc.exe
>>
>>
>> C:\Users\labuser\dlang\druntime>shell script.sh
>> shell 1.01
>> make -f posix.mak 
>> DMD=../dmd/src/vcbuild/Win32/Release/dmd_msc.exe
>> Error on line 10: '=' is not a valid filename char
>>
>> --- errorlevel 1
>
> Hi,
>
> It looks like you are trying to use the posix makefile with 
> Digital Mars make. posix.mak uses GNU make syntax - the 
> makefile for DigitalMars make is win32.mak. So you will need to 
> either make sure GNU make comes first in your PATH, or simply 
> use win32.mak instead.
>
> There is a wiki page with instructions for building D from 
> source:
> http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_DMD

Thank you Valdmir ... things seem to build so quickly - its hard 
for me to believe that its a successful build :)
Regards,
Kashayp