Perl Requires Chilkat v9.5.0.77+

Create Symbolic Link

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Demonstrates how to create a symbolic (soft) link. Chilkat2 Perl

use strict;
use warnings;
use Chilkat2;

# 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).

my $fac = Chilkat2::FileAccess->new;

# Here we create a symbolic link to point to qa_data/hamlet.xml
#
my $target = 'qa_data/hamlet.xml';
my $symlink = 'qa_output/symlink_hamlet.xml';
my $success = $fac->SymlinkCreate($target, $symlink);
if (!$success) {
    print $fac->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

# 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) {
    print $fac->LastErrorText, "\n";
    exit;
}

print "Success.\n";