Qt Creator on Windows and symlinks

[tedmiddleton]

Has anyone else noticed that Qt creator doesn't seem to play nicely with windows symlinks (not junctions - symlinks created with the mklink command)? I can't get qt creator to save files (.cpp files) pointed to by symlinks. qmake seems to be a-ok - I can build files well enough. Qt creator can open the source files, but it can't save them - it complains that the disk is full (and it isn't). Notepad++ and other text editors seem to be able to open and save files pointed to by these symlinks, but not Qt creator?

[tobias.hunger]

Did you "file a bug report":https://bugreports.qt-project.org/ ?

I am not aware of ever reading about this before, which could mean that this broke recently or that nobody ever uses symlinks on windows:-)

[tedmiddleton]

bq. Did you file a bug report [bugreports.qt-project.org] ?

No - but I'll do that now.

bq. I am not aware of ever reading about this before, which could mean that this broke recently or that nobody ever uses symlinks on windows:-)

I think that's exactly the issue - Microsoft has never exposed a gui interface for creating and maintaining symlinks and junctions.

[tedmiddleton]

I've had a closer look at this, and I think the problem was actually my symlinks, not Qt Creator. I had specified my symlinks as pointing to

\Users\ted\Documents\source\qml\somefile.qml

rather than

c:\Users\ted\Documents\source\qml\somefile.qml

I can't quite explain why this worked in notepad++ but not qt creator. I think the problem is that if the process's current working directory is on the same drive (c:), it dereferences properly, but if it's on a different drive, it won't. I tried it again and I was able to get notepad++ to fail. I rewrote the symlinks with the drive letter in them, and Qt creator works just fine now.