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compnerd / swift-win32

A Windows application framework for Swift
https://compnerd.github.io/swift-win32/
BSD 3-Clause "New" or "Revised" License
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Building fails with an internal error: symlinks not supported #781

Closed libewa closed 7 months ago

libewa commented 7 months ago

When trying to build or resolve package, the process exits with this error:

E:\swift\happyworkwin> swift package resolve
Updating https://github.com/compnerd/swift-win32.git
Updated https://github.com/compnerd/swift-win32.git (0.78s)
error: the package manifest at '\Package@swift-5.8.swift' cannot be accessed (InternalError(description: "Internal error. Please file a bug at https://github.com/apple/swift-package-manager/issues with this info. symlinks not supported")) in https://github.com/compnerd/swift-win32.git
E:\swift\happyworkwin>

As the error message says, this is probably due to Package@swift-5.8.swift just being a symlink to Package@swift-5.7.swift. This seems like it's not needed, as I use Swift 5.9.2 which automatically failed back to the (broken) 5.8 Package.swift.

compnerd commented 7 months ago

This is a user configuration issue - you need to enable symbolic links on your host. SPM already uses symbolic links and requires that they be enabled, so using them here is not really an additional step.