Use a hard link for the Windows discovery alias#6478
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This upstreams RoboStack patch patch/ros-rolling-fastdds.win.patch. The Windows install step creates an unversioned fast-discovery-server.exe alias for the versioned executable. A PowerShell hard link provides that alias without depending on Windows symbolic link privileges, which can fail for unprivileged installs outside Developer Mode. Signed-off-by: Tobias Fischer <info@tobiasfischer.info>
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FYI @wep21 @traversaro, this was opened from the RoboStack upstreaming tracker: RoboStack/robostack.github.io#16 Source patch: https://github.com/RoboStack/ros-rolling/blob/main/patch/ros-rolling-fastdds.win.patch |
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This is part of an effort to contribute RoboStack downstream patches back upstream.
Origin: RoboStack patch/ros-rolling-fastdds.win.patch, authored by Daisuke Nishimatsu.
The Windows install step creates an unversioned fast-discovery-server.exe alias for the versioned executable. PowerShell New-Item supports FileSystem item types including symbolic links and hard links, and using a hard link avoids depending on Windows symbolic link privileges for unprivileged installs.
Reference: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/microsoft.powershell.management/new-item