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Update README with windows symbolic link permissions

Open AnastaZIuk opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

We may encounter the lack of proper windows symbolic permissions issue, some submodules may requesting them like zstd on clang for instance. The following note should be included in readme to prevent build error surprises! https://www.scivision.dev/windows-symbolic-link-permission-enable/

AnastaZIuk avatar Dec 03 '21 11:12 AnastaZIuk

what's symbolic links creation needed for?

@devshgraphicsprogramming needed for build, look at the following one for example image we had to investigate with @sadiuk system registry. The problem is there may be more deps attempting to symbolic link and this is relevant when you go with a user not having all the privileges.

AnastaZIuk avatar Dec 03 '21 12:12 AnastaZIuk

Windows users may not have permission to create a symbolic link by default

AnastaZIuk avatar Dec 03 '21 12:12 AnastaZIuk

we were just lucky we have not entered this issue but this requires an attention.

AnastaZIuk avatar Dec 03 '21 12:12 AnastaZIuk

Windows users may not have permission to create a symbolic link by default

maybe there's a cmake test thing you can run to test for this during configure or generate?

Windows users may not have permission to create a symbolic link by default

maybe there's a cmake test thing you can run to test for this during configure or generate?

I can add it

AnastaZIuk avatar Dec 03 '21 19:12 AnastaZIuk