Emulate symlinks and use them in PHPstorm

Question

Please help me to resolve the problem

My project is:

->folder1
--->modules
----->Module1
----->Module2
->folder2
--->modules
----->Module3
----->Module4

The following structure I have on my LEMP virtual box. There are symlinks for modules from folder2/modules and on linux I have

->folder1
--->modules
----->Module1
----->Module2
----->Module3_symlink
----->Module4_symlink

And everything is executing well.

The problem is:

I'm trying to setup IDE PHPStorm on windows7. I downloaded all code on local machine. xDebug is working properly, but there are two issues:

1. folder1/lib contains some xsl schemas, which are necessary for spelling for folder2/lib. On one hand - I can just copy these schemas into 2nd folder and put them into .gitignore. But on the other hand I have one more problem:

2. I'm trying to execute PHPunit tests for classes from folder2. But I faced with the same problems as in point one.

My question is: is there any possibility in windows / phpstorm to emulate symlinks? Or somehow resolve this problem without installation unix system.

Thanks for all responses I've achieved it with command mklink

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I've created symlink but PHPstorm think that it's independent folder. PHPStorm is trying to synchronize it. And git is showing this folder in untracked files. Probably you can answer: synchronization with ftp will not bring harm. Folder can be added to gitignore.

But, is there another way? Please advice how properly achieve this.