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Windows and Symlinks

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ｄｄ edited this page Oct 15, 2017 · 5 revisions

While Posix compliant systems have a nice realpath function, getting the target of a soft symbolic link on Windows gets pretty coarse and is done via DeviceIoControl.

You can try out Windows Symlink support via the Symlink build-type.

Current support

Platform	Architecture	Type	Works?
DMD	x86	File	Yes
	x86	Directory	No
	x86_mscoff	File	Yes
	x86_mscoff	Directory	No
	x86_64	File	Yes
	x86_64	Directory	Yes
LDC2	x86	File	No
	x86	Directory	No
	x86_64	File	No
	x86_64	Directory	No

Tested with DMD v2.075.0 and LDC2 v1.3.0 on Windows 10 x64.

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