Re: [arm-gnu] Symbolic links in windows package

[Paul Brook <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 22 April 2004 09:29, Kai Schuetz wrote:
> Hi !
>
> I was seeing the problem that using the '-g' option would cause the
> linker to fail because it can not find the libg.a library.
>
> As the reason turned out that symbolic links are missing. This might be
> a problem of WinZIP which I used to unpack, put in general symbolic
> links are not supported under Windows. (There are "junktions" on NTFS,
> but that's only for directories, right ?)
>
> What is the proposed solution for that ?

These are actually hard linked files, not symlinks. Unfortunately winzip 
doesn't seem to handle these, silently ignoring one of the files. Most other 
archive programs create two copies of the file, which works fine.

Native windows versions of GNU tar and gzip can be downloaded from 
http://gnuwin32.sourceforge.net
These will correctly unpack all the files.

We hope to have a proper installer for the windows version in future releases.

Paul