Zitat von Michael Wild <them...@gmail.com>:
On 11. Dec, 2009, at 14:27 , Marcel Loose wrote:
I was browsing the CMake sources for a problem I was facing with the
creation of symlinks (on Unix that is) and I noticed that the
SystemTools::CreateSymlink function simply returns false when building
on a Windows platform.
Does that mean that I cannot use 'cmake -E create_symlink' on Windows.
If that's the case I consider it a bug, because the documentation
suggests that 'cmake -E create_symlink' provides a platform independent
way of creating symbolic links. So, if the OS and/or filesystem does not
support symbolic links, IMHO, it should just copy the file.
Simply copying the file might be just as bad if people assume it
really IS a symlink... IMHO, if the OS can't create a symlink, cmake
-E create_symlink should fail loudly, not just silently ignore it.
And somebody should implement this function for Windows >=
Vista/2008 (i.e. WINVER >= 0x0600):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363866(VS.85).aspx
For this, also see
http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html
Please note the UAC dialog when creating symlink on Vista. Have fun,
I'd say :-(
And what do you do on WindowsXP? What to do on FAT filesystems?
Additionally, without that extension above, it is non-obvious for
Windows users that a specific file is a symbolic link.
HS
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