Warning on Windows: creating symlinks requires admin privileges

[daschw]

julia> using FFMPEG
┌ Warning: On Windows, creating file symlinks requires Administrator privileges
└ @ Base.Filesystem file.jl:794

(first reported in JuliaPlots/Plots.jl#2103)

[daschw]

(v1.1) pkg> st FFMPEG
    Status `C:\Users\Daniel\.julia\environments\v1.1\Project.toml`
  [c87230d0] FFMPEG v0.2.1
  [8f399da3] Libdl

julia> versioninfo()
Julia Version 1.1.1
Commit 55e36cc308 (2019-05-16 04:10 UTC)
Platform Info:
  OS: Windows (x86_64-w64-mingw32)
  CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-7300U CPU @ 2.60GHz
  WORD_SIZE: 64
  LIBM: libopenlibm
  LLVM: libLLVM-6.0.1 (ORCJIT, skylake)
Environment:
  JULIA_EDITOR = "C:\Users\Daniel\AppData\Local\atom\app-1.38.2\atom.exe"  -a
  JULIA_NUM_THREADS = 2

[SimonDanisch]

That's expected for any package depending on binaryprovider :( Hopefully it will be fixed soon ish!

[daschw]

OK, thanks!