Re: [Mingw-users] Undefined reference to "_lstat" and "_S_ISLNK"

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  On 23.08.2010 8:40, JonY wrote:
> On 8/23/2010 11:11, Patrick Marsh wrote:
>> Thanks for the suggestions, Jon!
>>
>> Changing lstat to stat seemed to work, however defining S_ISLNK to be
>> 0 didn't.  I shouldn't be surprised.  Thanks for the suggestion,
>> though!
>>
> Hi,
>
> you can remove S_ISLNK entirely as well, since Windows doesn't have that
> sort of Unix symlinks.
>
Not true. Since WINVER 6 (Vista) symlinks are available, and they are 
compatible with *nix symlinks (to some extent; see Wikipedia for 
details). API, however, does not match the *nix API for symlinks - no 
lstat(), symlink(), readlink(), link(), S_ISSLNK; and other CRT 
functions might not work with symlinks the way they do on 
POSIX-compilant systems. But that doesn't stop you from implementing 
such interface on top of WinAPI functions for symlinks and hardlinks. I 
did that (google for libntlink), and other people did too (Python 3.2 
will have symlink support on Windows >= 6; Far Manager supports all kind 
of links, etc).