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