When your multiplatform code (Qt i.e.) needs to be build from Linux and Windows and your code resides on a Linux file server.
On the Windows machine Cygwin is installed and git from it is used by CMake to download thirdparty libraries.
There are 2 options available for Windows to access this resources:
For some reason a 'Samba' gets its uid and gid wrong which git has some problems with the download thirdparty libraries. NFS has no such problem.
NFS needs to be manually installed on a Windows system.
# For Server
Install-WindowsFeature NFS-Client
# For Workstation
Enable-WindowsOptionalFeature -FeatureName ServicesForNFS-ClientOnly, ClientForNFS-Infrastructure -Online -NoRestart
An NFS mount can only be performed on a drive not a directory. So in order to mount a directory a symbolic link is needed using mklink command. The mklink command needs to be enabled for regular users.
Find the nfs exports using the showmount
showmount -e server-name-or-ip
Mount the NFS to the S: drive.
mount -o anon server-name-or-ip:/path/to/directory S:
Create a symbolic link in the Cygwin users home directory.
mklink /D %HOMEDRIVE%%HOMEPATH%\cygwin\source S:\
¶ Note
Deleting a symlink in Windows is done using
rmdirand notdelwhich is confusing because in Linux a >symbolic link is considered a file and not a directory.