Running DMD tests on Windows / build requirements

[Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d]

On Saturday, 20 February 2016 at 13:41:36 UTC, Martin Krejcirik 
wrote:
> Dne 20. 2. 2016 v 13:40 kinke napsal(a):
>> You may want to have a look at 
>> http://wiki.dlang.org/Building_and_hacking_LDC_on_Windows_using_MSVC#Running_the_dmd-testsuite_tests for some tools prerequisites.
>
> I have gnu make, but it doesn't work:
>
> D:\prac4\dmd\test>make -f Makefile
> Creating output directory: test_results
> ! was unexpected at this time.
> make: *** [test_results/.created] Error 255

I believe you need to run the tests from a POSIX environment, 
e.g. Cygwin or MSYS.

The error message indicates that it attempted to execute a 
command with POSIX shell syntax using the Windows command 
interpreter.