Re: Building on Windows for both 32 and 64-bit installs

On Monday, February 24, 2014 3:31:51 PM UTC-6, Linda W wrote:
> Ben Fritz wrote:
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> > But this is Windows. There is no "shadow" target in either the MinGW makefile, or the Visual Studio;
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> >
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> Don't the shadow dirs just create a real dir copy and use hard links for
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> the files (or do they use symlinks). Eitherway, Windows NT supports
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> hard links going back to win2k, and symlinks in vista or above. Might
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> just be a matter of the tools not taking advantage of the platform's
>
> abilities.
>

Yeah, that's all they do. I'll probably hack up something when I get some time to support creating them on Windows with mklink.

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