We have many symlinks pointing to huge directories within our project. Because this archiver follows symlinks on Windows machines, the build stalls when eg. copying standard resources.

I have found the bug at AbstractArchiver.java:

    private boolean isSymlinkSupported()
    {
        return Os.isFamily( Os.FAMILY_UNIX ) && Java7Reflector.isAtLeastJava7();
    }

This should be changed to something like

return (Os.isFamily( Os.FAMILY_UNIX ) || Os.isFamily( Os.FAMILY_WINDOWS )) && Java7Reflector.isAtLeastJava7();

And the next strange thing is the usage of this method:

collection.setFollowingSymLinks( !isSymlinkSupported() );

When the OS does not support symlinks then the collection should follow them?