ticket #41 was mine, I think, so...
In Win10 Creators Update, if one enables Developer Mode [*] then one can
create symlinks without being administrator both from Command Prompt
with 'mlink' and in MSYS2 shells (MSYS/MINGW32/MINGW64) with 'ln': here
you have to uncomment the line
MSYS=winsymlinks:nativestrict
in the /*.ini files.
I did all this and all seems to work fine. Since then, when I build
Emacs, emacs.exe is a symlink to emacs-26.0.50.exe an not a copy.
Being native MS symlink, they are understood also by native Windows apps.
For example
alias open='start'
ln -sf true_pdf_file.pdf foo
open foo
starts Ad.Reader and read foo, i.e. true_pdf_file.pdf, and
apack a.tar.gz foo
tar -tvf a.tar.gz
lrwxrwxrwx user/NONE 0 2017-08-09 16:24 foo -> true_pdf_file.pdf
Angelo
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[*]
https://www.ghacks.net/2015/06/13/how-to-enable-developer-mode-in-windows-10-to-sideload-apps
BTW, you need Developer Mode if you want to use WSL...
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