I mean to create symbolic links in Msys2 from PortableApps, under Win 10 (I need portable applications to be able to carry the apps directory across systems), as I do in Linux.
For comparison, I will quote what I see with: 1) Msys2; and also other two options: 2) portable MobaXTerm (which is Cygwin based), 3) a (DOS) command prompt.
Msys2: I get the error
ln: failed to create symbolic link 'myfile': Operation not permitted
EDIT (I am not sure if there was any update in-between): now in Msys2ln -s myfiledoes not report an error, but it copies the TARGET instead of creating a symbolic link. I do not know why the change in behavior, but this is also useless to me.MobaXTerm: I can do
ln -s myfilewith no problem. But it is not a suitable workaround.Command prompt:
mklinkcreates a symbolic link. This might be a workaround, if I could launch it from msys2. But it requires admin rights, or at least Developer mode, and I would need something without this requirement. (I wonder what is MobaXTerm doing to overcome this requirement). See this(TBC: Windows explorer: did not test it).
Why the difference?
Is there a way to create symlinks in Msys2 (with no admin)? Perhaps by launching from msys2 a Cygwin process, which would of course require having some Cygwin application in the system (could the Cygwin dll alone be enouhg?)
Related:
https://github.com/msys2/MSYS2-packages/issues/249
https://sourceforge.net/p/msys2/tickets/41/
http://mingw.5.n7.nabble.com/symbolic-links-ln-s-command-td7159.html
