Re: [Mingw-w64-public] Win-Builds

[Corinna V. <vin...@re...>]

On Dec 13 10:06, Adrien Nader wrote:
> There are two issues here:
> - symlink fallback on windows
> - Windows XP and symlink fallback
> 
> tl;dr: don't mind the warnings, they're harmless; Windows XP support is
> an issue (but at least read the last paragraph)
> 
> Full explanation below.
> 
> Since the package is a *native* windows executable, it cannot do POSIX
> symlinks. Win32 symlinks are slightly different and also have several
> issues which make them not usable.
> 
> The approach to provide something equivalent to how symlinks are used
> inside packages is:
> - build on linux

- or Cygwin.  It supports its own symlinks which work on XP as well.


Corinna