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Re: CreateSymbolicLinkW needed


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 09:57:47PM +0200, Denis Excoffier wrote:
>
>On 2013-04-29 12:09, JonY wrote:
>> On 4/29/2013 14:40, Denis Excoffier wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>> 
>>> I tried the 20130424 snapshot and obtained the following Windows message
>>> (in pop-up and translated from french):
>>> 
>>> bash: CreateSymbolicLinkW not found in KERNEL32.DLL
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Therefore, i keep the plain 1.7.18 running:
>>> 
>>> % cat /proc/version
>>> CYGWIN_NT-5.1 version 1.7.18(0.263/5/3) (corinna@calimero.vinschen.de)
>>> (gcc version 4.5.3 20110428 (Fedora Cygwin 4.5.3-4) (GCC) ) 2013-04-19
>>> 10:39
>>> %
>>> 
>> 
>> This symbol is not available on XP, only in Vista or later. What command
>> are you using to trigger it?
>> 
>The pop-up is produced even before login, presumably during the load of
>"bash --login -i" (but i also have /bin/bash in /etc/passwd, so this may also
>be the reason).

I think there was a typo introduced when Corinna made her native symlinks
change.  I just uploaded a new snapshot which should fix the problem.

Can you confirm?

cgf

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