Re: [Help-smalltalk] Build 3.0 on mingw/msys

[Paolo Bonzini]

Paul Butcher wrote:
> Thank you for your help on this.  By debugging in lib-src/symlink.c I 
> noted that an initial forward slash is being put on the first arg 
> (old_path).  (i.e. old_path was set to "/c:/path/smalltalk/" and Windows 
> doesn't like the initial slash.
> I 'cludged' a fix by resetting the string pointer to &old_path[1] in 
> CopyFile call and all seems to work.
> Presumably this goes back to to scripts/Package.st where the symlink 
> call originates? but I couldn't trace the fault myself.

I'll take a look, and I've applied the change you suggested (commit 
ca71f799).

What are the failures?

Thanks!

Paolo