Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
The Cygwin cmake has "cmake -E create_symlink". The Windows native
cmake does not. All the Cygwin implementation actually does is create
shortcuts, and Cygwin appears to understand these as symlinks. Are
the notions of "shortcut" and "symlink" sufficiently similar, that
it's reasonable to include this capability for Windows in general? Or
is Cygwin simply brighter than Windows is going to be about how to
make use of them?
Motive: to work around the libwhatever.dll.a libwhatever.a collision
problem in CMake 2.4.3, a symlink would be useful. I can do this on
Cygwin easily enough, but not on MinGW because it uses the Windows
native CMake.
On 2nd thought, I've been reading up on symlinks vs. shortcuts and they
aren't exactly comparable. MSYS has "ln -s" available but all it does
is a straight copy, not a symlink or a shortcut. Meanwhile, plain MinGW
wouldn't be expected to have "ln" available, that's an MSYS thing. So
in sum, I'm thinking it would be useful to have a create_shortcut
ability for Windows native CMake. Does that capability exist in some
other form already? If not, I'll make a feature request.
Cheers,
Brandon Van Every
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