Creating symlinks in Windows for Hudson build

Question

I have a job in Hudson that builds on a Windows XP slave. I know that symlinks are not possible (directly) in Windows XP, and so I am trying to use junctions instead. I wrote a batch script:

@echo off
if "%1" == "" goto ERROR1
if "%2" == "" goto ERROR2
goto create

:create
echo Creating junction for %1 at %2
if exist %2 junction -q -d %2
md %2
junction -q %2 %1
goto :eof

:ERROR1
echo Source directory not specified
goto :eof

:ERROR2
echo Destination directory not specified
goto :eof

In my job, when I call this script, it hangs at the line echo Creating junction for %1 at %2. This is my Hudson "Execute Windows Batch Command":

call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x64

copy C:\Data\Scripts\slink.bat .
call slink.bat C:\Data\3rdParty64 3rdParty
call slink.bat %WORKSPACE%\..\..\..\tds.core\label\%label% tds.core

...and this is the output:

C:\Data\Hudson\dev\workspace\Common_Windows\label\DFWW9202>call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x64 
Setting environment for using Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 x64 tools. 

1 file(s) copied. 
Creating junction for C:\Data\3rdParty64 at 3rdParty

Any ideas? (if this is not the right site, please redirect..sorry and thanks!)

Answer 1

Never mind, found it if anyone else is looking - I changed the "call" to slink.bat to "start /B", and added full paths, so:

call "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 10.0\VC\vcvarsall.bat" x64
start /B C:\Data\Scripts\slink.bat C:\Data\3rdParty64 3rdParty
start /B C:\Data\Scripts\slink.bat slink.bat %WORKSPACE%\..\..\..\tds.core\label\%label% tds.core