Re: Create Windows "shortcut" (.lnk) with D?

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On Sunday, 6 March 2016 at 03:13:23 UTC, 岩倉 澪 wrote:
I'm creating a small installation script in D, but I've been 
having trouble getting shortcut creation to work! I'm a linux 
guy, so I don't know much about Windows programming...

[...]

Any help would be highly appreciated as I'm new to Windows 
programming in D and have no idea what I'm doing wrong!

If you don't want to mess with the Windows API then you can 
dynamically create a script (I do this in CE installer):

void createLnk(string exeName, string displayName)
{
    import std.process: environment, executeShell;
    import std.file: remove, exists;
    import std.random: uniform;
    import std.conv: to;

    string vbsName;
    do vbsName = environment.get("TEMP") ~ r"\shcsh" ~ 
uniform(0,int.max).to!string ~ ".vbs";
    while (vbsName.exists);

    string vbsCode = "
        set WshShell = CreateObject(\"WScript.shell\")
        strDesktop = WshShell.SpecialFolders(\"Desktop\")
        set lnk = WshShell.CreateShortcut(strDesktop + 
\"\\%s.lnk\")
        lnk.TargetPath = \"%s\"
        lnk.Save
    ";
    File vbs = File(vbsName, "w");
    vbs.writefln(vbsCode, displayName, exeName);
    vbs.close;
    executeShell(vbsName);

    vbsName.remove;
}