How to copy MS Windows symlink files as is?
Solution 1:
A tool answer: LinkShellExtension allows you to do this and much more. If you're working with soft/hard links in Windows at all, it's an enormously helpful tool.
In this case, you probably want to choose its 'Splice' behaviour in copying Symlinks.
Solution 2:
partially duplicate question, multiple good answers are here
Using Windows tool
xcopy /b /i <source symlink name> <destination symlink name>
and you should disregard a message:
output is 0 File(s) copied
also another tool in standard Windows installation: robocopy
/SL :: copy symbolic links versus the target.
Since you mentioned you want to "send" it, you might get TAR which can pack/unpack symlinks into one archive file. 7z might one day too.
As I see it, 7zip can archive them but not extract on Windows.
Solution 3:
The symlink to a directory acts as a directory itself. So, when you copy the directory, you copy the directory.
If you had a directory with a bunch of files in it and you wanted a copy of it, but without the files in it, you'd just make a new directory with the same name. Same thing applies here, really.