Handling of symlinks on Windows (Perl, MSYS2, Cygwin)

• file-copy-recursive-reduced

  1 1 6.0 Perl

  Recursive copying of files and directories within Perl 5 toolchain

Despite this setback, I saw it as an opportunity to learn more about symlinks on Windows. Apparently there were similar issues with other modules that also needed to be fixed. As I was working with a pull request to file-copy-recursive-reduced I was encouraged to write this blog post.

• App-perlbrew

  19 713 6.9 Perl

  Manage perl installations in your $HOME

The Language Server and Debugger for Perl VS Code extension allows debugging of Perl scripts, see the link above for an extensive list of features. To use the extension you first need to install the Perl module Perl::LanguageServer. I first tried to install it on Ubuntu 21.04. The module installed fine here, but after installation the extension still did not work. I found that the reason was that I was using a custom perl installed with perlbrew. Fortunately, it was easy to fix by going into the extension settings and setting an absolute path to the binary:

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