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Re: CreateSymbolicLink doesn't compile using MinGW [message #49146 is a reply to message #49145]

Tue, 26 December 2017 17:57

Klugier
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Registered: September 2012
Location: Poland, Kraków

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Hello,

The compilation error occurred, because you are trying to use WinAPI without including header appropriate header. In your case it is winbase.h. Please notice that by including Core.h system header is never inherit. Core library must work in multi-platform environment, so doing such a thing would be bad.

Moreover when you decide to use CreateSymbolicLink your application will not compile on other platforms such as Linux without modification or writing ifdef blocks.

As far as I know U++ doesn't offer support for SymLink, but i might be wrong.

Sincerely,
Klugier

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