[Rock-dev] Rock CMAKE macros not working under windows

[Sylvain Joyeux]

Answering my own question: mklink is only available since Vista. I
don't see that as a problem for us.

Sylvain

On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 1:58 PM, Sylvain Joyeux <bir.sylvain at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that mklink /D creates symbolic links for directories ...
> Don't know why nobody seem to mention it in the cmake threads I read
> ...
>
> Sylvain
>
> On Tue, Oct 14, 2014 at 5:40 AM, Michael Rohn <Michael.Rohn at dfki.de> wrote:
>> On the cmake bugtracker you will find some bug reports about this
>> problem. I think there is no cmake solution and it is not planed to fix
>> this in the near future by the cmake developers.
>>
>> So we have to handle it on our own.
>>
>> Greetings
>> Michael
>>
>> Am 14.10.2014 um 10:03 schrieb Janosch Machowinski:
>>> One needs admin rights to create junction points.
>>> The only command runnable as a normal user is
>>> mklink /J
>>> I'll try to figure out if this is sufficient. Anyway, I was
>>> more looking for a native cmake solution...
>>> Greetings
>>>       Janosch
>>>
>>>
>>> Am 13.10.2014 um 16:43 schrieb Sylvain Joyeux:
>>>>   From quickly googling about it, it seems that we would need to replace
>>>> the create_symlinks call on windows by a junction creation (given what
>>>> we do, should work fine, but someone should please check it out). We
>>>> would be limited to NTFS.
>>>>
>>>> Sylvain
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 5:43 AM, Janosch Machowinski
>>>> <Janosch.Machowinski at dfki.de> wrote:
>>>>> Hey,
>>>>> the Rock CMAKE macros do not work under windows, which
>>>>> is especially bad for base/types. The root of the problem is the
>>>>> creation of symlinks, which is not supported on windows :
>>>>> e.g. :  cmake -E create_symlink
>>>>> Anyone an idea how to overcome this issue, without changing
>>>>> the current setup ?
>>>>> Greetings
>>>>>        Janosch
>>>>>
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