mdbook serve fails on cygwin #681
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Got as far as running up mdbook serve and got the following error: $ mdbook serve It looks like an issue with following links as I can see the file is there and I was able to open it: ls -l "C:\cygwin64\home\shanleyk1\code\comprehensive-rust\src\android\interoperability\cpp\overview.svg" Is there a trick to getting the symbolic links to work under cygwin ? cheers, Kieran |
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Hi Kieran, I'm afraid I've never tried serving the course under Windows (in any form, Cygwin or not). So I had not considered that the symlinks could cause problems for you. What you could do would be to copy the |
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Great I followed your advice and manually copied over the svg and it solved my problem. Thanks for the quick response |
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Glad it worked! It's been many years since I was near a Cygwin environment — I'm sure people who work with it has a standard way to deal with symlinks, but I don't know it 🙂 |
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The discussion in #733 might be relevant here: Git has some options for how to handle symlinks and perhaps they can help on Cygwin too. |
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Hi Kieran,
I'm afraid I've never tried serving the course under Windows (in any form, Cygwin or not). So I had not considered that the symlinks could cause problems for you.
What you could do would be to copy the
overview.svgfile from thethird_party/folder to theandroid/interoperability/cpp/folder by hand. That should let you build the book locally. Alternatively, you could remove the reference fromcpp.md. You'll lose the picture here, but you should otherwise be able to read and change the book.