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

[Janosch Machowinski]

You also need superuser rights to do an mklink /D and this is a problem.
     Janosch

Am 14.10.2014 19:01, schrieb 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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