Goddamn, Windows' idea of symlinks is completely broken. It's like they faked it at the UI level, but if your build process wants to copy the file? Too bad, it's not real so you can't copy it.

@Paramite mklink links are exactly the ones I'm talking about! I guess _some_ parts of the Windows API have been taught to follow them, but not others. It's that fractured nature that makes symlinks rarely useful on Windows.