From 709b0cb90cec938cbfd3d49ed1c35fa949bda36a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bert Belder <bertbelder@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2018 03:52:00 +0200
Subject: Fix symlink creation on windows

---
 tools/util.py | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

(limited to 'tools/util.py')

diff --git a/tools/util.py b/tools/util.py
index 8b8628aba..8a65f2ede 100644
--- a/tools/util.py
+++ b/tools/util.py
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ def symlink(target, name, target_is_dir=False):
         CreateSymbolicLinkW.argtypes = (ctypes.c_wchar_p, ctypes.c_wchar_p,
                                         ctypes.c_uint32)
 
+        # Replace forward slashes by backward slashes.
+        # Strangely it seems that this is only necessary for symlinks to files.
+        # Forward slashes don't cause any issues when the target is a directory.
+        target = target.replace("/", "\\")
         flags = 0x02  # SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_ALLOW_UNPRIVILEGED_CREATE
         if (target_is_dir):
             flags |= 0x01  # SYMBOLIC_LINK_FLAG_DIRECTORY
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