Copying symbolic links

[rossmcm]

I can't seem to set up to copy symbolic links successfully. I have two PC's connected to the internet. The folder structure in each is the same. both PC's 2-way sync to a dropbox folder, the dropbox folder tree mirrors the disk, but it is zipped (one file per Zip file). On PC1 I have:

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C:\
  Libs
    LibFile.pas
  Projects
    Project1
      ProjectFile1.pas
      <symlink to>LibFile1.pas 
    Project2
      ProjectFile2.pas
      <symlink to>LibFile1.pas 

and that's how I want it replicated on PC2 - both projects will share the same copy of LibFile.pas (things are arranged like this in an attempt to play nicely with Git, which likes all the files of a project to reside in the same folder tree).

Files and folders sync both ways fine, but I can't get the link to copy. I have tried various combinations of the symlink file settings, but I either get nothing copied, or the file is copied so that on PC2 I end up with 3 copies of LibFile. I want to copy the link, not file file it points to.

Is this possible, or am I missing something?

EDIT
Just to be clear, the backing up of the file LibFile.pas isn't the issue. That's already taken care of because the sync includes both the Libs and the Projects folders. The scenario I want to cater for is where I create a symlink on PC1 and I want the same symlink to automatically get created on PC2.

[superflexible]

It is only possible via VPN directly from PC to PC. Not over any Internet Protocol or cloud storage.