Failed to create a symlink on Windows machine

[avibiton13]

Environment - Windows 11 Pro (Version 10.0.22621 Build 22621, Intel i7-9700).

Following the instruction in this repo README.md file, when running yarn build I get the following error:
symlink failed. Try running 'sudo yarn symlink' → failed ×, and obviously when launching the targeted adobe product(which is After Effects in my case) - I cannot open my CEP extension.

Trying to run yarn build using administrator account doesn't help, regardless of the terminal program in use(cmd.exe/PowerShell/Git Bash).

I did manage to bypass that issue using this workaround:

• Launching Windows Command Prompt as administrator.
• Executing this command: mklink /D "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\CEP\extensions\<my-panel-id>" "<path-to-my-bolt-app-root-source-code-folder>\dist\cep"

With that my CEP app is visible in After Effects Extension menu, and I can interact with it perfectly.

Please consider a fix for that issue, so we won't have to use that bandage I've mentioned above.

[justintaylor-dev]

Is this on a new Bolt install? Is your user an Admin? Perhaps try updating the plugin yarn add vite-cep-plugin

[justintaylor-dev]

Haven't had any other Windows users report this issue. If it comes up again feel free to re-open and provide additional details.

[avibiton13]

@justintaylor-dev updating the vite cep plugin by running yarn add vite-cep-plugin resolved the issue!
A symlink is now created successfully when running yarn build on a Windows machine as well!
Thank you very much 🙏

[justintaylor-dev]

awesome!

[Jalan-Ember-SN]

Hi! I was having this issue and tried running yarn add vite-cep-plugin and then yarn build again. However it failed with the following error:

failed to load config from C:\[...]\vite.config.ts
error during build:
TypeError: Cannot destructure property 'iife' of 'undefined' as it is undefined.
    at jsxInclude (C:\[project folder]\node_modules\vite-cep-plugin\lib\index.js:338:23)
    at extendscriptConfig (C:\[project folder]\vite.config.ts:142:45)   
    at Object.<anonymous> (C:\[project folder]\vite.config.ts:233:1)    
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1256:14)
    at require.extensions.<computed> [as .ts] (C:\[project folder]\node_modules\vite\dist\node\chunks\dep-6e2fe41e.js:62006:20)
    at Module.load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1119:32)
    at Module._load (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:960:12)
    at Module.require (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1143:19)
    at require (node:internal/modules/cjs/helpers:110:18)
    at loadConfigFromBundledFile (C:\[project folder]\node_modules\vite\dist\node\chunks\dep-6e2fe41e.js:62014:17)
error Command failed with exit code 1.

I thought perhaps some other packages could be out of date so tried running yarn upgrade but that didn't seem to help.
I am not sure what to make of this. Any thoughts appreciated!