Building tests on Windows

[markov_chainsaw]

Has anybody tried to create a Visual Studio solution for building and running stan tests?
How to do you build tests on Windows?

[bgoodri]

@markov_chainsaw

Has anybody tried to create a Visual Studio solution for building and running stan tests?

Yes, but it only occasionally worked

@markov_chainsaw

How to do you build tests on Windows?

mingw from RTools

[markov_chainsaw]

@bgoodri

mingw from RTools

Does it compile fine for you in x64?

[bgoodri]

Yes

[markov_chainsaw]

I tried to build stan-math tests using vc141. Some test compiled successfully, however the majority failed. It looks like most errors come from Eigen. I tried to use v141_clang_c2 toolchain, which helped to compile more tests, but still not all of them. Has anybody dealt with this? I mean building stan-math tests using visual studio toolchain.