Re: winln for native symlinks

[Thomas Wolff <towo at towo dot net>]

Am 03.04.2013 10:08, schrieb Daniel Colascione:
> On 4/3/2013 1:01 AM, Thomas Wolff wrote:
> > Am 03.04.2013 09:15, schrieb Daniel Colascione:
> > > In light of the recent discussion on the developers list about native symlinks,
> > > I'd like to suggest including my winln program (which I posted a while ago on
> > > this list, and which I've attached to this message) in the cygutils package.
> > > It's a drop-in replacement for GNU ld.
> > I'm getting this:
> >
> > winln.c: In function ‘do_link’:
> > winln.c:343:21: error: ‘SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_DIRECTORY’ undeclared (first use in
> > this function)
> Thanks. It'd been a while since I've compiled the program. Our old headers must
> have had a bug that led to defining that flag even for OS versions that didn't
> actually support symbolic links. Changing _WIN32_WINNT to 0x600 (Vista) made the
> program compile again.

It shows this error message:
winln: you don't permission to create symbolic links. Run, as administrator,
winln:   editrights -a SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege -a $YOUR_USER
which should be fixed somehow like this:
You don't have permission to create symbolic links. Run, as administrator,
        editrights -a SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege -u $USER
Moreover, this advice does not help. Even after having issued this
command as administrator, winln -s still works as administrator only.
------
Thomas


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