id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,milestone,component,version,severity,resolution,keywords,cc
12119,Symlinks not supported when compiled on MSYS2 MinGW64 Windows 7,Mario Emmenlauer <mario@…>,Beman Dawes,"I will try to follow up this issue a bit further myself, but wanted to report it ASAP to help others and track the progress. I compiled the boost package on MSYS2 (standard package source compile) and found that it prints ""symlinks supported: no"". So far I could not find why this is the case, because symlinks should certainly be supported on this system/environment. When I force-disable this check, symlink support does get compiled into boost, and I get further.

Creating symlinks still fails for me, but this might be an unrelated (permission) issue: It fails now with ""Got exception boost::filesystem::create_symlink: A required privilege is not held by the client:"". ",Bugs,new,To Be Determined,filesystem,Boost 1.61.0,Problem,,,