Question

We are using Windows as a development system and Ant to create the platform-specific bundles. For the macOS specific bundle (.tar.gz file) we are using the tar task. I want to create a symbolic link in the output .tar.gz file which points to another file in the same .tar.gz file. Can this be done using Ant?

Answer 1

To the best of my knowledge stock Ant can t do this.

Answer 2

Bit late, but suggestion: you can create tar archives containing symlinks from windows command line using cygwin.

$ ln -s abc def
$ tar cf test.tar abc def
$ tar tvf test.tar
-rw-r--r-- shegny/Domain Users 0 2013-04-26 10:25 abc
lrwxrwxrwx shegny/Domain Users 0 2013-04-26 10:25 def -> abc

Answer 3

You cannot create a symbolic link on Windows. Therefore, the Symlink Ant task would not work properly. One option would be to run a continuous build server on a Mac machine. Then, you could run that task at regular intervals and the Symlink Ant task would work.

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