Normally, the build script attempts to create a symlink to fast-discovery-server on Windows and only falls back to a batch file if the necessary administrator privileges are not available. Since symlinks do not work well with vcpkg binary caching, we force the build script to create a batch file in any case. diff --git a/tools/fds/CMakeLists.txt b/tools/fds/CMakeLists.txt --- a/tools/fds/CMakeLists.txt +++ b/tools/fds/CMakeLists.txt @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ # - on windows privileges to create symlinks (a .bat file is provided on unprivileged installations) if( WIN32 ) # Use powershell to generate the link install( - CODE "execute_process( COMMAND PowerShell -Command \"if( test-path ${PROJECT_NAME}.exe -PathType Leaf ) { rm ${PROJECT_NAME}.exe } ; New-Item -ItemType SymbolicLink -Target $ -Path ${PROJECT_NAME}.exe \" ERROR_QUIET RESULTS_VARIABLE SYMLINK_FAILED WORKING_DIRECTORY \"${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${BIN_INSTALL_DIR}\") \n if( SYMLINK_FAILED ) \n message(STATUS \"Windows requires admin installation rights to create symlinks. A bat script will be provided instead.\") \n set(FAST_SERVER_BINARY_NAME $) \n configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/fast-discovery-server.bat.in ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${BIN_INSTALL_DIR}${MSVCARCH_DIR_EXTENSION}/${PROJECT_NAME}.bat @ONLY) \n endif()" + CODE "set(FAST_SERVER_BINARY_NAME $) \n configure_file(${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/fast-discovery-server.bat.in ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/${BIN_INSTALL_DIR}${MSVCARCH_DIR_EXTENSION}/${PROJECT_NAME}.bat @ONLY) \n" COMPONENT discovery) else() # Use ln to create the symbolic link. We remove the version from the file name but keep the debug suffix