From d5d75940298a2c5ca618e1abe1b4f0e958f2a335 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: eveeifyeve <88671402+Eveeifyeve@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:56:11 +1100 Subject: [PATCH] manual: Add note on windows to use a git setting to avoid symlink issues in building Ref #14787 This really doesn't really fixes the problem of the symlink, but it solves the progress of getting windows working. TODO: find out if it's a bug from meason & make a feature request to avoid symlinks or generate symlinks upon build and git ignore, but still goes back to the issue of is this a bug or do we need to make a feature requests. Co-authored-by: John Ericson --- doc/manual/source/development/building.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/doc/manual/source/development/building.md b/doc/manual/source/development/building.md index eb65a7247..742170f76 100644 --- a/doc/manual/source/development/building.md +++ b/doc/manual/source/development/building.md @@ -3,6 +3,10 @@ This section provides some notes on how to start hacking on Nix. To get the latest version of Nix from GitHub: +> **Note** +> +> When checking out the repo on Windows, make sure you have the git setting `core.symlinks` enabled, before cloning, as there are symlinks in the repo. + ```console $ git clone https://github.com/NixOS/nix.git $ cd nix