Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Message-ID: <000501c1aac1$172e60d0$a4e2290c@world9t3igycu7> From: "Joshua Daniel Franklin" To: Subject: cygwin lnk creation app Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2002 19:38:00 -0600 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 I've finished a small (one C file) Windows-link-creation app for possible inclusion in Cygwin, maybe in utils. Here are some examples and a GPL question. Usage mklink.exe [OPTION]... TARGET NOTE: All filename arguments must be in unix (POSIX) format -a|--arguments=ARGS use arguments ARGS -h|--help output usage information and exit -i|--icon icon file for link to use -j|--iconoffset offset of icon in icon file (default is 0) -n|--name name for link (defaults to TARGET) -v|--version output version information and exit -A|--allusers use 'All Users' instead of current user for -D,-P -D|--desktop create link relative to 'Desktop' directory -P|--smprograms create link relative to Start Menu 'Programs' directory Some examples of what the app (which I've called mklink but could be called winlnk--or anything else really) can do: ./mklink -DA /usr/local/ #creates a "local.lnk" on the All Users/Desktop ./mklink -n foo/bar -D /usr/local/bin #creates a "bin.lnk" in the folder foo on current user's Desktop ./mklink -i /cygwin.ico -P http://www.cygwin.com #creates a "www.cygwin.com.lnk" in user's SM Program Files dir ./mklink -n ~/foobar /bin/rxvt.exe #creates a foobar.lnk to rxvt (with no options) in home dir ./mklink -a '-rv -tn rxvt -fn "FixedSys" -e /bin/bash --login -i' -n "Internet Explorer.lnk" -i /c/WINNT/system32/SHELL32.DLL -j 106 /bin/rxvt # creates a link in the PWD to rxvt with my favorite options--confusingly titled and iconed to look like IE This could be useful to package maintainers to use in shell scripts to create, for example, a link in the SM Programs\Cygwin directory to the Cygwin FAQ. It could also, at some convenient time in the future, replace the link-creation routines currently in setup.exe. The only the caveat is that currently setup.exe also checks whether the user WANTS links all over their Start Menu. Now, for the GPL question. I noticed that ln -s creates a symlink and a winlink. At first I thought this would be as simple as putting the posix path as a description, but that doesn't work. Now, so far all I've used are the setup.exe sources mklink2.c and desktop.cc, both (c)RedHat, and MSDN documentation of Shell Links. But the ln sources are (c)FSF. If I looked at those sources for code I would not be able to assign this code to RedHat, correct? Thanks. Joshua Daniel Franklin _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/