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Bug 730206 - Mingw windows compiling fails because of symlink()
Mingw windows compiling fails because of symlink()
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: General
git master
Other Windows
: Normal normal
: 2.10
Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
GIMP Bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2014-05-15 16:11 UTC by Hartmut Kuhse
Modified: 2014-05-16 18:50 UTC
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Description Hartmut Kuhse 2014-05-15 16:11:15 UTC 
Compiling master fails since
commit 	a91007756c15bf27b6e2694fd480bf03ff32331c
with mingw for windows, because the function "symlink (foo, bar)" is not known to mingw for windows.
Comment 1 Michael Natterer 2014-05-16 18:50:18 UTC 
Thanks, fixed in master:

commit 3066779462118fcc237ead75343107fd7427d36b
Author: Michael Natterer <mitch@gimp.org>
Date:   Fri May 16 20:46:52 2014 +0200

    app_ don't symlink the test icon theme on windows, there is no symlink()

 app/tests.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)