creating shortcuts.. question

creating shortcuts.. question

[Laszlo Vecsey]

I'm using the CreateLink example from the platform sdk but I'm having
trouble getting it to work. I checked the archives and there were three
posts related to this but not enough to help me, I need some clarification
on one of them too.

I've made a short example of where I'm left running into trouble -- this is
run against the latest cygwin for windows as I've just upgraded it with
setup again this morning.

--
#include <windows.h>
#include <shlobj.h>

int main() {

     IShellLink* psl;

        psl->SetPath("testing");
        psl->SetDescription("string");

        }

--
gcc conf1.c -o conf1 -lshell32
conf1.c: In function 'main':
conf1.c:8: structure has no member named 'SetPath'
conf1.c:9: structure has no member named 'SetDescription'

I checked the include files and they do show STDMETHOD wrappers within the
IShellLinkA and IShellLinkW structures. I compiled with -save-temps as well
and they show up in the conf1.i file as follows:

 HRESULT(__attribute__((__stdcall__))   * Resolve ) (IShellLinkA  *,
HWND,DWORD)  ;
 HRESULT(__attribute__((__stdcall__))   * SetPath ) (IShellLinkA  *,
LPCSTR)  ;

Does everything look correct? I realize the above C example won't do
anything functional however I'm confused as to whats causing it to fail
compiling.


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Re: creating shortcuts.. question

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 03:13 PM 12/7/2001, Laszlo Vecsey wrote:
>I'm using the CreateLink example from the platform sdk but I'm having
>trouble getting it to work. I checked the archives and there were three
>posts related to this but not enough to help me, I need some clarification
>on one of them too.
>
>I've made a short example of where I'm left running into trouble -- this is
>run against the latest cygwin for windows as I've just upgraded it with
>setup again this morning.
>
>--
>#include <windows.h>
>#include <shlobj.h>
>
>int main() {
>
>      IShellLink* psl;
>
>         psl->SetPath("testing");
>         psl->SetDescription("string");
>
>         }
>
>--
>gcc conf1.c -o conf1 -lshell32
>conf1.c: In function 'main':
>conf1.c:8: structure has no member named 'SetPath'
>conf1.c:9: structure has no member named 'SetDescription'
>
>I checked the include files and they do show STDMETHOD wrappers within the
>IShellLinkA and IShellLinkW structures. I compiled with -save-temps as well
>and they show up in the conf1.i file as follows:
>
>  HRESULT(__attribute__((__stdcall__))   * Resolve ) (IShellLinkA  *,
>HWND,DWORD)  ;
>  HRESULT(__attribute__((__stdcall__))   * SetPath ) (IShellLinkA  *,
>LPCSTR)  ;
>
>Does everything look correct? I realize the above C example won't do
>anything functional however I'm confused as to whats causing it to fail
>compiling.



Why don't you look at the Cygwin DLL source and see how it's done there?



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RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
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Re: creating shortcuts.. question

[Laszlo Vecsey]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
>
>
> Why don't you look at the Cygwin DLL source and see how it's done there?
>
>

Theres really no place in the cygwin dll where it would exist, and I just
checked to be sure. I'm looking to create the ~700byte windows shortcut .lnk
files and not a symbolic link.. I should have made pointed that out in my
first message :)



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Re: creating shortcuts.. question

[Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)]

At 04:36 PM 12/7/2001, Laszlo Vecsey wrote:

>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall@rfk.com>
> >
> >
> > Why don't you look at the Cygwin DLL source and see how it's done there?
> >
> >
>
>Theres really no place in the cygwin dll where it would exist, and I just
>checked to be sure. I'm looking to create the ~700byte windows shortcut .lnk
>files and not a symbolic link.. I should have made pointed that out in my
>first message :)



So you're saying that the code which Cygwin uses to make it's symbolic 
links via the Windows shortcut mechanism is not specific enough for your
situation?  If so, then you probably want to look to the Microsoft site 
(i.e. the MSDN).  And actually, this is really off-topic for this list, 
considering that you're trying to create something using MS APIs for a 
purpose unrelated to Cygwin.




Larry Hall                              lhall@rfk.com
RFK Partners, Inc.                      http://www.rfk.com
838 Washington Street                   (508) 893-9779 - RFK Office
Holliston, MA 01746                     (508) 893-9889 - FAX


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