Hello Stefan, there is a command mklink on Windows [1] which is described as being able to create symbolic links. There is also an API function CreateSymbolicLink [2].
Concerning executable files, it seems that the executable nature of a file depends upon its extension, see [3]. So maybe if we create a file xyz.bat the file should be found executable. What I do not understand is that I have practical remembrances of changing the executable flag of a file under cygwin and this “chmod” command allowing dll s to actually work on Windows after they were untarred or copied with cygwin utilities. I hope this helps. Using a library called jna (java native access) [4] we could call system level methods from java and make them available within ant tasks for testing or production purposes. Regards, Antoine [1] https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc753194.aspx [2] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa363878%28v=vs.85%29.aspx [3] https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms722429%28v=vs.85%29.aspx [4] https://github.com/java-native-access/jna On Apr 9, 2016, at 11:07 AM, Stefan Bodewig <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > On 2016-04-09, <bode...@apache.org> wrote: > >> symlink and executable file selectors > > Two questions: > > (1) does anybody know how to write tests for either on Windows? I've > currently only enabled antunit tests on Unix (at least that's what I > wanted to do). > > (2) do we want to port it as optional task depending on Java7 for 1.9.8? > This would only benefit people who can use Java7 but not Java8. > > Stefan > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@ant.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@ant.apache.org
