I'm battling with cygwin for quite a while now.
I searched far and wide on how to make cygwin create Windows-style symbolic links.
I tried the following:
export CYGWIN="winsymlinks:native"
export CYGWIN="winsymlinks:nativestrict"
export CYGWIN="winsymlinks:lnk"
- I also tried exporting w/o the quotes.
- I also tried from both cygwin/x86 and cygwin/x64
For the life of me - I can't get the Windows native symlinks to work.
I'm working on Windows7/64bit; cygwin version 1.7.25.
I'd love to get a solution for this one.
Thank you.
I also battled with this one for a while on Windows 7 with Cygwin.
Everything I read seemed to say that it needed export CYGWIN="winsymlinks:native", but no luck for me.
Then I read this blog http://zzamboni.org/blog/making-cygwin-windows-and-emacs-understand-th/ which said that just "winsymlinks" was all you need. Tried that and it worked beautifully :)
Just use this environment variable.
export CYGWIN="winsymlinks"
I got the same problem. In my case, I used winsymlinks:nativestrict and received an error report saying: Operation is not permitted.
This is becase of Windows UAC and the terminal emulator not being started with elevated privileges. So I run Cygwin mintty as administrator (you can right click the shortcut and choose "Run as administrator" or set the mintty shortcut property: Advanced -> Run as Administrator). After that, everything just works perfectly.
