ERROR: from shell.Get(): symlink not supported by windows

[ivan386]

I can't build ipfs with that.

..\github.com\ipfs\go-ipfs>gx install --global --nofancy
[get ] [fetch]   go-multihash                  QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8
ERROR: from shell.Get(): symlink ../bin \src\gx\ipfs\QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8.part\go-multihash\test\sharness\bin: not supported by windows
retrying fetch QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8 after a second...
ERROR: from shell.Get(): symlink ../bin \src\gx\ipfs\QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8.part\go-multihash\test\sharness\bin: not supported by windows
retrying fetch QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8 after a second...
ERROR: from shell.Get(): symlink ../bin \src\gx\ipfs\QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8.part\go-multihash\test\sharness\bin: not supported by windows
[err ] [fetch]   go-multihash                  QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8 symlink ../bin G:\Develop\go\src\gx\ipfs\QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fK
ERROR: install deps: failed to fetch dependencies

[Stebalien]

@djdv gx uses the API and then extracts the tar files itself. Do we need to register a path sanitizer?

[djdv]

@Stebalien
Yes, once ipfs/kubo#4956 is finalized/merged, I'll replicate the behaviour here: ipfs/go-ipfs-api#90
This still requires that users have symlink creation privileges though, or in Go 1.11 on Windows 10, enable "Developer Mode".

[djdv]

Actually
@ivan386

not supported by windows

This appears to be the error returned on Windows XP, which does not support symlinks officially. The proposed fix always tries to create links first, so if you can successfully create them (by using unofficial patches), it should work. However Go is explicitly inserting this error on the platform so it would have to be dealt with upstream in Go's os.Symlink.

[ivan386]

workaround

ipfs get -a QmPnFwZ2JXKnXgMw8CdBPxn7FWh6LLdjUjxV1fKHuJnkr8

Unpack tar to \src\gx\ipfs