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Asked: 2026-05-24T09:42:26+00:00

I write ant build script. I need to create a symlink and I found

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I write ant build script. I need to create a symlink and I found symlink task. According to manual, it works only on Unix. What happens if someone run my build script on windows platform? Will build fail? Or this task will be ignored on windows platform? Or in case of NTFS drive, it will even work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I’m running Win7 and I tried it. Since I have Mingw installed it used ln. Ln seemed just to copy everything. Since a normal Windows installation does not have ln, it would fail there.

    Here’s what happens without ln:

    C:\Users\Janus\Desktop>.\apache-ant-1.8.2\bin\ant
Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\lib\tools.jar
Buildfile: C:\Users\Janus\Desktop\build.xml

dist:

BUILD FAILED
C:\Users\Janus\Desktop\build.xml:3: Could not launch ln: java.io.IOException: Cannot run program "ln": CreateProcess error=2, The system can
not find the file specified

Total time: 1 second

C:\Users\Janus\Desktop>

    Build.xml:

    <project name="MyProject" default="dist" basedir=".">
<target name="dist">
<symlink link="lol" resource="d3dwindower" />
</target>
</project>
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