Re: Headerfile-bug in framework.make

[Adam Fedor]

On Aug 11, 2005, at 5:44 PM, Helge Hess wrote:

> On 11. Aug 2005, at 17:48 Uhr, Adam Fedor wrote:
> >    * Psuedo-framwork support was implemented on MingW. This 
> > essentially
> >      involves copying the framework to several places so it can be 
> > used
> >      without links, which Windows does not really support.  There's no
> >      other clean way to do it.
>
> BTW: is this really the case? I had the impression that its pretty 
> similiar to OSX, expose only Aliases (aka symbolic links) to the user, 
> but support "real" links internally.
> In the case of Windows creation of such via the Posix APIs.
There was a discussion on this recently on one of the lists from people 
who are pretty knowledgeable about that. The basic answer was, yes, it 
really is necessary. Windows links aren't at all like any other links.