symlinks does not work under windows

make sure that the data symlinks are actually populated on windows platform
shogun-toolbox · Jan 27, 2017 · 0acff00 · 0acff00
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diff --git a/examples/CMakeLists.txt b/examples/CMakeLists.txt
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+# symlinks for windows does not work, not even cmake's create_symlink.
+# make sure that the data directories are populated everywhere
+IF(WIN32)
+	EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E remove "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/undocumented/data")
+	EXECUTE_PROCESS(COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E copy_directory "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/data/toy" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/undocumented/data")
+ENDIF()
+
 IF (NOT TRAVIS_DISABLE_LIBSHOGUN_TESTS AND EXISTS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/undocumented/libshogun)
 	add_subdirectory(${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/undocumented/libshogun)
 ENDIF()