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Re: creating shortcuts.. question
- From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall at rfk dot com>
- To: Laszlo Vecsey <bliptune at optonline dot net>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 15:50:41 -0500
- Subject: Re: creating shortcuts.. question
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?
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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