Unable to create symlink when upgrading to Bazel 7

[Craig Paris]

I am trying to upgrade my project to Bazel 7 but on Windows debug builds I am getting the following error when building:

Exec failed due to IOException: Cannot create symlink <filename>.pdb symlink target is a directory, use a junction

I have confirmed that it is a file and not a directory. Could this be related to Bazel? Specifically I am trying 7.0.2 right now.

[carpen...@gmail.com]

Maybe its related to this bug on windows where symlink actions can be scheduled before the action they are creating exists, and because it can't see the target file it doesn't know what type of link Junction vs Symlink to create. 

https://github.com/bazelbuild/bazel/issues/19018

[Tiago Quelhas]

Does the issue go away if you build with `--remote_download_all`?

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