Require Administrator users on Windows Cygwin, and use symlinks always

scripts/build.js

@@ -1,16 +1,25 @@
 const colors = require('colors/safe');
 
+const adminCheck = require('is-admin');
 const getBrowserify = require('./browserify');
 const getCopy = require('./copy');
 const getJS = require('./js');
 const getSass = require('./sass');
 const getSymlinks = require('./symlinks');
-const { formatDirsForMatcher, getSignatures, writeSignatures, cleanUp, onSuccess, onError} = require('./utils');
+const { isWindows, formatDirsForMatcher, getSignatures, writeSignatures, cleanUp, onSuccess, onError} = require('./utils');
 const { dirs, symlinkDirs, copyDirs, symlinkFiles, jsFiles, ignoreMask } = require('./config');
 
 if (require.main === module) {
 	(async () => {
 		try {
+			if (isWindows) {
+				var isAdmin = await adminCheck();
+				if(!isAdmin){
+					console.log("Must be run as Administrator on Windows.");
+					console.log("  (close the Cygwin terminal, reopen it with right-click, check the menu)");
+					process.exit();
+				}
+			}
 			const t1 = Date.now();
 			global.isError = false; // used to prevent further output to avoid concealing errors
 			const symlinks = symlinkFiles
@@ -41,4 +50,4 @@ if (require.main === module) {
 			onError(err);
 		}
 	})();
-}
+}

scripts/symlinks.js

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ const path = require('path');
 const fs = require('fs-extra');
 const globby = require('globby');
 
-const { isWindows, formatDirsForMatcher, getSignatures, writeSignatures, cleanUp, onSuccess, onError, onProgress } = require('./utils');
+const { formatDirsForMatcher, getSignatures, writeSignatures, cleanUp, onSuccess, onError, onProgress } = require('./utils');
 const { dirs, symlinkDirs, copyDirs, symlinkFiles, ignoreMask } = require('./config');
 const ROOT = path.resolve(__dirname, '..');
 
@@ -37,11 +37,7 @@ async function getSymlinks(source, options, signatures) {
 	while ((f = filesToProcess.pop()) != null) {
 		const dest = path.join('build', f);
 		try {
-			if (isWindows) {
-				await fs.copy(f, dest);
-			} else {
-				await fs.ensureSymlink(f, dest);
-			}
+			await fs.ensureSymlink(f, dest);
 			signatures[f] = {
 				isSymlinked: true
 			};
@@ -83,4 +79,4 @@ if (require.main === module) {
 			onError(err);
 		}
 	})();
-}
+}