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V fails to symlink after updating on Windows 10

Open popcar2 opened this issue 3 years ago • 5 comments

V version: Was V 0.3.0 a689641 before update, now V 0.3.0 258ff73 OS: Windows 10 21H1

After running v up it says "The system cannot find the path specified." and fails to symlink after building.

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popcar2 avatar Aug 28 '22 10:08 popcar2

Also, I'm not 100% sure this is related, but V fails to compile since this happened. It used to work before I did v up

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popcar2 avatar Aug 28 '22 10:08 popcar2

Did you run the v symlink command in an Administrator shell? That's the only command where you need to do that.

And if V isn't compiling for you, try doing git pull then .\make.bat to force a full rebuild.

JalonSolov avatar Aug 28 '22 14:08 JalonSolov

Recompiling and doing symlink on an admin shell fixed it. Still, if v up hits an error I think it would be ideal to roll back to the last version rather than go forward with a broken install.

popcar2 avatar Aug 28 '22 22:08 popcar2

Windows is... odd. There are many cases where something that works on every other OS fails on Windows. It would be great if we had a knowledgeable Windows user who could find all these problems an fix them.

JalonSolov avatar Aug 28 '22 23:08 JalonSolov

That's the goal @popcar2.

v up is going to handle all these edge cases. We just need to fix it :) It's especially hard on Windows, since you can't edit a running program.

medvednikov avatar Aug 31 '22 12:08 medvednikov