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Handling symbolic links

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gjggjg111

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Hello,

Here is my situation:

I have added symbolic links for header files to Perforce. I am using Visual C++ 6.0. The tool does not like symbolic links as far as I can tell. Any idea how to work around this problem?

Thanks,
 
That's one of my pet peeves against Windows: there is no such thing as a symbolic link in windows, only shortcuts, which cannot be used as straight files by programs (such as VC), only by double-click by the user (and surely by a specialized program which will read the shortcut link itself and go get the real file).

My suggestions: #include your header using the full or relative path, or <> and add the folder to the include path, or add the headers to your project.

Vincent
 
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