How to create shortcut?

[Earnie Boyd]

Did you build with the -lole32 library?

IShell should be declared here; although as you have mentioned it
doesn't exist in the import library.  It is also not defined in the
Structures.h file.

You will need to find the defintions for IShell*.  You will need to
recreate the libole32.a import library with the IShell definitions. 
You will need to define the IShell in the Structures.h file.

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---Michael Lemke <ba0571@chlothar.bamberg.baynet.de> wrote:
>
> This is not purely a gnuwin question but related:
> 
> How do I create a shortcut for a file?  I found the attached program
> in one of the WIN32 API helpfiles but gcc doesn't like it.  I also
> could not find which library exports the IShell stuff.
> 
> Is this the only way to make a shortcut?  Looks extremely cumbersome
to
> me.  Just to make it clear: I don't want a symbolic link but a real
.LNK
> file.
> 
> Anyway, here goes:
> 
> #include <windows.h>
> // CreateLink - uses the shell's IShellLink and IPersistFile
interfaces 
> //   to create and store a shortcut to the specified object. 
> // Returns the result of calling the member functions of the
interfaces. 
> // lpszPathObj - address of a buffer containing the path of the
object 
> // lpszPathLink - address of a buffer containing the path where the 
> //   shell link is to be stored 
> // lpszDesc - address of a buffer containing the description of the 
> //   shell link 
> 
>  
> HRESULT CreateLink(LPCSTR lpszPathObj, 
>     LPSTR lpszPathLink, LPSTR lpszDesc) 
> { 
>     HRESULT hres; 
>     IShellLink* psl; 
>  
>     // Get a pointer to the IShellLink interface. 
>     hres = CoCreateInstance(&CLSID_ShellLink, NULL, 
>         CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER, &IID_IShellLink, &psl); 
>     if (SUCCEEDED(hres)) { 
>         IPersistFile* ppf; 
>  
>         // Set the path to the shortcut target, and add the 
>         // description. 
>         psl->lpVtbl->SetPath(psl, lpszPathObj); 
> 
>         psl->lpVtbl->SetDescription(psl, lpszDesc); 
>  
>        // Query IShellLink for the IPersistFile interface for saving
the 
>        // shortcut in persistent storage. 
>         hres = psl->lpVtbl->QueryInterface(psl, &IID_IPersistFile, 
>             &ppf); 
>  
>         if (SUCCEEDED(hres)) { 
>             WORD wsz[MAX_PATH]; 
>  
>             // Ensure that the string is ANSI. 
>             MultiByteToWideChar(CP_ACP, 0, lpszPathLink, -1, 
>                 wsz, MAX_PATH); 
> 
>  
>             // Save the link by calling IPersistFile::Save. 
>             hres = ppf->lpVtbl->Save(ppf, wsz, TRUE); 
>             ppf->lpVtbl->Release(ppf); 
>         } 
>         psl->lpVtbl->Release(psl); 
>     } 
>     return hres; 
> } 
> 
> 
> And that is what I get:
> 
> BASH.EXE-2.01$ gcc shortc.c
> shortc.c: In function `CreateLink':
> shortc.c:16: `IShellLink' undeclared (first use this function)
> shortc.c:16: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> shortc.c:16: for each function it appears in.)
> shortc.c:16: `psl' undeclared (first use this function)
> shortc.c:19: `CLSID_ShellLink' undeclared (first use this function)
> shortc.c:20: `CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER' undeclared (first use this
function)
> shortc.c:20: `IID_IShellLink' undeclared (first use this function)
> shortc.c:22: `IPersistFile' undeclared (first use this function)
> shortc.c:22: `ppf' undeclared (first use this function)
> shortc.c:32: `IID_IPersistFile' undeclared (first use this function)
> BASH.EXE-2.01$
> 
> 
> Thanks for ideas,
> Michael
> 
> -- 
> Michael Lemke
> Sternwarte Bamberg, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
> (michael@astro.as.utexas.edu or ai26@a400.sternwarte.uni-erlangen.de)
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