Xojo Plugin

Create Symbolic Link

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Demonstrates how to create a symbolic (soft) link.

Note: This example requires Chilkat v9.5.0.77 or greater.

Xojo Plugin

Dim success As Boolean
success = False

// Chilkat supports symbolic links on both Windows and non-Windows operating systems.
// Note: On Windows, symbolic links and Windows shortcuts are two different things.
// On the Windows operating system, a process requires a special privilege to create
// a symbolic link (unless running as administrator).  

Dim fac As New Chilkat.FileAccess

// Here we create a symbolic link to point to qa_data/hamlet.xml
// 
Dim target As String
target = "qa_data/hamlet.xml"
Dim symlink As String
symlink = "qa_output/symlink_hamlet.xml"
success = fac.SymlinkCreate(target,symlink)
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(fac.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

// Here we create a directory symbolic link.  The target is a directory (not a regular file)
target = "qa_data/xml/"
symlink = "qa_output/xml_dir"
success = fac.SymlinkCreate(target,symlink)
If (success <> True) Then
    System.DebugLog(fac.LastErrorText)
    Return
End If

System.DebugLog("Success.")