[CMake] [cmake-developers] CMake: need developer help / adopt a bug

[Petr Kmoch]

Hi all.

By default, admin privileges are necessary to run mklink (even for
creating symlinks). However, this can be changed by granting the
SeCreateSymbolicLinkPrivilege privilege (see e.g.
http://superuser.com/questions/124679/how-do-i-create-an-mklink-in-windows-7-home-premium-as-a-regular-user)

Petr

On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 11:39 PM, David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 20, 2012 at 5:16 PM, Daniel Pfeifer <daniel at pfeifer-mail.de>
> wrote:
>>
>> 2012/8/20 David Cole <david.cole at kitware.com>:
>>
>> > Call for CMake developers! Please adopt one or more of these bugs if you
>> > can.
>> >
>> > The following 11 bugs are on the CMake 2.8.10 roadmap, but they are
>> > UNASSIGNED. They do not have anybody actively working on them at the
>> > moment.
>> >
>> >   ...
>> >   http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=13162
>>
>> Is it ok to use the Windows API to create symlinks? That would enable
>> symlinks depending for what version of Windows CMake is compiled.
>>
>> ====
>> bool SystemTools::CreateSymlink(const char* origName, const char* newName)
>> {
>> #if !defined(_WIN32) || defined(__CYGWIN__)
>>   return symlink(origName, newName) >= 0;
>> #elif (_WIN32_WINNT >= 0x0600)
>>   DWORD flags =
>>     SystemTools::FileIsDirectory(origName)?SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_DIRECTORY:0
>>   return CreateSymbolicLink(newName, origName, flags) != FALSE;
>> #else
>>   (void)origName;
>>   (void)newName;
>>   return false;
>> #endif
>> }
>> ====
>>
>> cheers, Daniel
>
>
>
> It's ok with me. I think that's the only reasonable way to do it.
>
> I've heard (but not tried personally, so don't know how much is just rumor)
> that the symlink stuff on Windows requires "admin" privilege level... so it
> may be less useful than folks think.
>
> Let's just make sure to return errors when symlinks can't be created.
> Hopefully with text suggesting what went wrong.
>
>
> Thanks,
> David
>
>
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